Word: quarrelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the writer's conception of the world to come one cannot quarrel. The future is a thing beyond the range of the most scientific criticism. If it is to Mr. Wells' fancy to picture the world of one-hundred and eighty years hence as a planet wholly civilized, gathered into one state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars...
With details in the production one can quarrel endlessly. It is easy to be shocked at the idea of Harvard as an intellectual Sargasso Sea in some years to come; one may point out that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental famine; it seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken...
...Paris the purchase of a Matisse picture started a friendship with Matisse; soon she was in the midst of the pre-War Paris art world. She and Picasso hit it off from the first: with the interlude of one bad quarrel they have remained best friends. Both of them acknowledge that they are geniuses. Gertrude Stein "realizes that in English literature in her time she is the only one. She has always known it and now she says it." Though she does not believe in popular success she would like to have had a little more recognition. For years...
...have no quarrel with Mr. Thomson's explanation to the world or his own conscience as to the Item-Tribune's association with Crawfish Huey Long, either in advertising, circulation or politics...
...left in the midst of the bloodless quarrel between Denmark and Norway over possession of the Greenland coast north of Scoresby Sound (TIME. June 8. 1931 et seq.}. Denmark-said Norway in effect, defending the rights of Norwegian hunters to settle there-had never fully explored this part of her huge colony. Dr. Koch proceeded systematically to answer that objection by proceeding north from Scoresby Sound, charting as he went...