Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Odell Shepard's masterly study, "The poetry of War", puts us all in his debt. Critical insight, and learning enlivened by touches of humor, the artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
...Harvard Indifference" is a favorite phrase among the paragraphers for the college sections of the Boston newspapers. This year the term is unusually applicable to the Freshman class. In most of the competitions for managerships in previous years there have always been large numbers of Freshmen, but this year they are noticeable by their absence. This disagreeable truth makes us fear that these blase youths do not realize the importance of such positions...
...willing to strike out boldly against any league of nations that is encumbered by a Democratic President, you are turning to bolshevism. If you fail to go into a league you are projecting somebody else in the same unenviable direction. What did we do without a phrase so happily applicable to all human needs? Boston Post...
...Getting by" is the advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race...