Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...operation. It is said that obedience weakens the character; but that is true only if it is blind and unwilling. Look at Switzerland. It is said that military training develops too far the pugnacious instincts, which should rather be lulled to rest. Again, look at Switzerland. No passion is made more unruly by being instructed and self-conscious; the reverse is true. A course of lessons in boxing adds nothing to the likelihood that a man will attack his neighbor on the street; though it may well make-him more ready to go to the aid of a neighbor...
...prima donna whose character lends itself to this part as to find a young man who can act Hamlet. Mme. Gay, however, made up for what freshness, color and tone she may lack by a thoughtful and effective study of the part. Fortunately avoiding any wild excesses of passion, she differed from Farrar's interpretation by giving Carmen more restraint and treachery...
...that the undergraduate takes his extra curricular activities more seriously than his studies. But he does this because his homelly latent philosophy is essentially a sporting philosophy, the good old Anglo-Saxon conviction that life is essentially a game whose significance lies in terms of winning or losing. The passion of the American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering are the encouragement...
...without a power to enforce them. In private life, contracts would be broken frequently, if no damages could be exacted for the breach. But nations are not more scrupulous than individuals in breaking an agreement when the temptation is strong, and war comes only when temptation is strong and passion or pressure is great. In fact, most men who have thought deeply on these subjects are becoming convinced that there must be some form of compulsion to make countries respect the rights of others; as the lawyers say, the obligation must have a sanction...
...neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done just what in that case was done, submitted the whole matter in dispute to arbitration, and even if the decision had proved distasteful, passion would have had such time to cool that the result would in all probability have been accepted, or the parties would have agreed upon a compromise...