Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emotional deflection that Americans, especially their women, seek. Prosperity has released so many naive intellects "that in no other period in history, and in no other race, has virtue been so curious about her sisters." But, culture being reflected in manners, these naive ones are of good report. "They are developing new resources in human intercourse." The Lady and the Carpet-More of the same mood, wherein globe-trotting female self-expressionists are contrasted with 1) a quiet, acute Circassian, the stay-at-home spouse of a ship's surgeon; 2) a self-made young business woman from Harlem...
...study of the American Revolution will receive great stimulus from the Report, for the wealth of new material may make possible at last a definite solution of long vexed problems. This short sketch cannot do more than give the barest outlines of the long struggle according to the fresh discoveries. No definite principle on either side can be distinguished, and the old shibboleths of Slavery and States' Rights must now be relegated to the limbo of historical illusions together with the Trade Routes of Troy. Both public and private documents prove that the white troops fought loyally for their masters...
Another large section of the Report deals with American social life in the period immediately preceding the final catastrophe, and it should furnish fascinating reading not only for the social scientist but also for students of folklore and primitive religion. The survival of totemism as late as the twentieth century has often been disputed, but is now established as a historical fact. Newhaven and Princeton were the homes of the Bulldog and Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there...
...grocer or of druggist; and every public conveyance bore testimony to the humble but influential ministering angels. This spiritual movement finally disposed of the economic man and even made some progress toward suppressing the economic housewife. Its importance has not yet been grasped by Abyssinian historians, but the Report does full justice to it and lays especial stress on its international as well as internal effects...
This section of the Report is most suggestive of a new approach to the problem of the causes of American decadence. Although such a general question did not come within the scope of this investigation, it continually presented itself to the members of the expedition as they examined the conditions of society immediately before the fatal drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar...