Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking point it fails to arouse a feeling of fellowship. The sad compassion one feels for the miserable unfortunates of another world than ours is roused by this Hamlet because of this very height and monotony of suffering--no mere mortal could bear it without either involuntary reaction or complete dissolution. For this reason by far the most effective appeal is made in the moments after Hamlet has trapped his uncle into betrayal of guilt, when the long strain of hideous uncertainty and brooding breaks at last and a tortured human mind gives way to reaction. For that one brief...
...have been suffering of late from national and personal extravagance, from which the present depression is only the inevitable reaction. Nor are our colleges in this respect blameless. Out aim should be to have our college life sound and wholesome without extravagance in athletics or fraternities or other aspects of the social life of the college...
...that a 'pleasant time was had by all', but that the pleasant time was achieved without the assistance of abnormal accessories. . . . Conditions in regard to dancing, costumes, and other objectionable features were far better-than they have been for some years. Possibly this is an indication of the inevitable reaction to the social excesses which have been prevalent since the war". The Princeton Pictorial informs us that with President Hibben, Mrs. Gerould, Mrs. Trowbridge, and Scott Fitzgerald, all of Princeton, leaders in the crusade against the "modern degradation" of youthful society, the university has become "a prominent battle-field upon...
...wake with vision of the street of dreams" said the prologue to the picture. And so they were. There characters seemed at first glance to be real people, acting in a real Manuel in real situations: yet they were not real people, but characterizations, showing not their normal reaction to various occurrences, but rather the thoughts and ideas in their hearts. Indeed, tow of the characters, the preacher of the streets, and the wandering musician were purely allegorical; the one representing, with his prayers and hymns, the Good Influence; the other, with his violin music, suggestive of sin, the Evil...
...which Mr. Babson says changed Russia from an autocratic to a democratic country is Newton's Law of Action and Reaction. In some of Newton's original papers which he was able to obtain while in England in 1907, Mr. Babson found the claim that the time would come when this law would apply to the actions of individuals in mass. By this phrase Mr. Babson believes Newton meant "Business", and it is by the combining of Newton's law with his own business chart discovery, that Mr. Babson has created his system...