Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Intellectual Mother has said goodbye to all that and put on a most professional and appealing fancy dress. From having that vaguely apologetic look on the living-room table, it has progressed to actual self-assertion; and instead of being springy and recalcitrant in the hand, it is entirely pleasant and manageable. Moreover, it has come down to sordid matters of economics and succeeds in giving the buyer what appears to be his money's worth, for the first time in a lean and sheaf-like decade...
...Edwin C. Hill is not the inaugurator of a "new profession, that of the journalist historian". To the readers of "Our Times", of "Only Yesterday", of "Interpretations" any such assertion appears stupidly absurd. Before the appearance of "The American Scene" Mr. Hill was merely one of a number of pleasant voices and nimble wits which took advantage of the fact that there is small room for adjectives in the hasty columns of a metropolitan newspaper, that John Citizen is content to allow others to do his reading, thinking, and imagining for him, and that the radio offers a lucrative medium...
...depression year, one must discount the tragic little concluding sermon on materialism. To the man who was too busy or too lazy to follow the newspapers in 1932, "The American Scene" will appear trenchant and indispensable. The well informed man will find in it perhaps three hours of pleasant reminiscence and then recommend it for the attention of the neighborhood high school teacher of current events...
...history, especially modern history, in order to acquire a perspective toward things of his own day. This has a particular application for persons intending to enter some profession where a historical background is valuable. Or one takes an interest in some phase or period of history because it is pleasant to understand and revitalize what used to be. This reason is probably as important as the "cash nexus" to those who intend to "spend their life in history," either as teachers, as historians, or as hobbyists. But that reason for concentrating in history which is common...
...science, and its cultural value, since it deals so broadly with the activities of man, is being realized more and more. One's education should consist of more than the more process of absorbing good courses. Personal contacts with professors and inters, informal, easy, friendly discussion, and pleasant physical working conditions are all to be desired. They are found in the field of Human Geography...