Word: reproach
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quality of the contents is not above reproach. The poems have no particular charm and are lacking in character. They seem to be a collection of verses, made up of queerly arranged sentences, and over highly colored similes. Many of the passages are vague, while others are absolutely unintelligible...
Here we have the root of the entire matter. Consider for a moment the un-impeachable conduct of British colonial officials, separated by thousands of miles from the home government. The only thing that keeps their actions always above reproach is an active, alert, public opinion, no less evident in India than in London itself. Freedom of the press there has a real meaning, for the columns of the daily newspapers are used constantly by a watchful public as one means of securing faithful public servants. This is brought about by incessant criticism and fault-finding, that to the American...
...found out about the affair and asked for news on it. With scarcely any exaggeration a newspaper story of the yellowist description might have been written, but the correspondents agreed among themselves to suppress the worst particulars and to send in only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred to, or on the University. Surely, when these facts are understood, no one can longer blame the Harvard representatives of the Boston newspapers for their action in the matter, or for the accounts they wrote. A BOARDER AT RANDALL HALL...
Bandelairie, who settled in Belgium in 1864, was greatly irritated by the materialism of French art, and deplored bitterly the total absence in the country of original literature. At the present time, he could not justly make that reproach, since twenty years after his unpleasant and tiresome stay in Belgium, the genius of the Flemish race began to show itself. Its poets are now reckoned among the best in Europe, and even among the best French poets. The three Belgians who best represent the ideal of this poetry are closely associated with the Symbolistic School. They are: Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges...