Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THESE poems do not, as some critics have asserted, show particular technical incompetence. Doubtless even in the 18th contury when critic and publisher were more fastidious, technically Mr. Hillyer's couplets would have been printable, although their manner would have been considered peculiar. This manner (I mean by manner a mingling of substance and style), however, because of its diffilusiveness and giddiness is discouraging...
...public generally, a Senate investigation means a scandal hunt. Last week, however, in the Senate Office Building in Washington began an investigation which seemed to have no particular scandal in mind: The subject was unemployment and the master of ceremonies was South Carolina's amiable Senator James F. Byrnes. Said he: "It is not the purpose of this committee to endeavor to show that either labor or capital deliberately brought about the present recession in business." As evidence of good intentions, Jimmy Byrnes pointed out that his committee had been appointed six months ago, before eco-nomic astrologers foresaw...
...responsibilities. Sometimes these responsibilities are such that the University accepts them with a heavy heart and some reluctance; in rare cases it refuses them altogether. But the recent Nieman bequest, though it places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community. We are asked to expend the money in such a why as to 'promote and elevate the standards of journalism,' using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad; there are no restrictions on the methods to be employed...
...shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated Episcopalians and Catholics, but thought the Congregationalists would win out in the end. The only thing he wholeheartedly admired was European art in general, nudes in particular. He studied representations of Venus all over Europe, found little fault with any of them, although he thought Rubens should have put more clothes on his wife before he painted...
...fitness of a man for high education, or the particular form of this education, the choice of a career, the development of an effective personality, the solution of personality problems, are all questions which should be met more frankly in the future than they have been in the past, since they form the foundation of a useful education...