Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard with deadening conviction the results of the diagnosis of students' marks. We have almost recoiled in despair at the revival of the old question of social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been due to any secret lamentation and outward enthusiasm for such signs, but rather to the feeling that our fathers may have sufficiently detached themselves from the pulse of student life to misunderstand the proclivities for such things as we see them. And it is with this in mind that I am venturing to suggest some real facts...
...court proceedings may be dignified and reasonable, as observers state, to the outward view. But certainly, sub rosa, all of Germany is smiling at the ease with which the defendants obtain a verdict of not guilty. Dignity and reasonableness are masks as easily assumed as is the guise of poverty. But why assume a disguise at all? Certainly no one is deceived by a trial that does not convict and a court that never condemns. There is no need in raising a hue and cry about punishment, if the punishment is never going to fall. The court and its actions...
...chains as well. She likes to think that she is the equal of Man in every way; but one suspects that deep down in her heart she is not quite sure. Perhaps that is why she is so dogmatic about it and so relentless in her pursuit of the outward signs. Having claimed so much, the honor and self-respect of the sex demand that it refuse everything in the remotest degree resembling a "favor", lest it be construed as an acknowledgement of weakness...
...limits of New England to attend it Mr. Train himself rather idealizes maintained for generations, argue in its possessor? Does it not to the ordinary mind tell a tale of superiority? A more upstart may affect indifference, but can he "get away with if:? What is the fine outward air of indifference (we are still looking at the matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either of descent or of mind? If a college education is worth the salt that the graduate has eaten in getting it, it has taught...
...Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward and visible accidents to the essential Uncle Henry...