Word: reject
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which means, according to his own definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free inquiry in all matters. You may reject his philosophy as absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman...
Vachel Lindsay's latest lyrics come close to that theme, play with it a bit, and then reject it with whole-hearted aversion. To his mind, which delights in parable, analogue, and symbol, the monotonous measure of progress is anathema. In the words of the mixed blood, whose thoughts and fancies are the subject of the poems, one reads the theme of the collection...
...personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing a man can really get his teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking son marries the leading lady of the "Wells", Miss...
Senator Overman of North Carolina, a Democrat, echoed Mr. Bingham from another angle: "If the right to reject a Senator had been followed, there would not have been a Southern Senator on the floor in the days following the Civil...
...other end of the scale of argument, were the states' rights champions, who said flatly that the Senate had no Constitutional right to reject a duly elected Senator? be he a moron, a crook, a leper or anything else. Said Senator Bingham of Connecticut, a Republican: "The Senate has no divine right to keep itself 'holy and unspotted from the world.' It was created by the people of the United States to do for them certain things which they could not do so well themselves. To choose their representatives was not one of them. . . . Is the Senate empowered...