Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These people, the agile Pulcinellas of Manhattan's Grub Street,* were outlining the policy of a magazine they had decided to publish? The New Yorker. "The purpose," they said, "of The New Yorker will be to reflect New York life through its treatment of the lives and personalities of the day. It will not be what is called radical or highbrow. It will be what is called sophisticated . . . will publish facts which it will have to go behind the scenes to get . . . hopes to reflect metropolitan life." Then said someone: "It will not be edited for the old lady...
...Dutch East Indies. Unfortunately, the aboriginal character of these populations render the value of a "conversion" doubtful; and most leaders of missionary enterprise are frank to say in effect: "Better one Chinaman or Jap than fifty Islanders." And working-over the figures as a whole, missionary generals reflect that their banners wave more brightly over dusky people with a low order of indigenous culture than they do in the ancient sunlight of ancient civilizations...
...talk, to think. They have leisure enough to travel a bit and to read a little in fields quite outside their own particular course of study. Harvard was like that once. Emerson did little reading for his classes, but much for himself; and Roosevelt, too, found time to reflect and write. The Harvard College of today is far different. Men no longer have time to linger over meals, to exchange ideas, and so to broaden their intellectual horizons. The passing of Memorial Hall more than any other single event showed doubters that the old Harvard with its easy cultural life...
...would be better to plant green ivy about her walls, so that some future poet, wandering alone in nightly musing, may reflect upon her crumbling majesty and write as wrote his master...
Time is wanting time to reflect, to ponder, to dream; idle hours when fancy sets the spirit free. Can one imagine Plato or Shakespeare in a managership competition? The thought is absurd, and yet just as absurd is the ceaseless round of petty activities that make up "college life...