Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State is to be made simon-pure by the morality-makers at Albany. Their latest effort, as all now know, is directed at literature. It is, say these Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press...
...play, too, should be fashionable. It is possible to miss the first act completely and enjoy the rest. In fact, this course may be recommended. For, through this first act, the lovely heroine is finding out that so pure has been her life that men are not attracted to her physically. When this is firmly fixed in her mind, the amusement opens. She naturally has to disprove the theory. She is unexpectedly kissed in the course of her experiments; unexpectedly her husband sees the kiss. Trouble...
...pure sympathy for the victim, it might at first thought be suggested that this University offer him aid and comfort; but the suggestion dies in dread of the result of furnishing refuge to all Yale men who desire to marry. On second thought sympathy gives way to apprehension, lest the University itself adopt rules similar to the one just enforced in New Haven. Next term's Regulations might include such clauses as: "Undergraduates announcing their engagements shall be placed on probation", or "No man shall be eligible for the Deans' List until he has taken a vow of celibacy...
...skyscraper has grown out of America's industrial and commercial greatness, so, in time, will there develope a style in college architecture to represent America's cultural ideal. What this style will be, time will determine. If it is to be truly representative of America, it must be a pure American expression, without suggestion of European models...
...bored in the subway seems idiocy to me. So a college which teaches you to be successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself in the subway is wrong." This is both delightful and intelligent, but most of the embroidery of "Logic" is either pure dada, or epigram that does not bear directly on a central theme of criticism. Yet the sketch is in the general spirit of prose, and in a particular spirit that is suited to the American genius and the genius of the day. It does not take refuge in faint reproduction of past prose...