Word: rotarianism
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Many a devout Roman Catholic is a Rotarian. Last week many a Catholic Rotarian was troubled and disturbed by words in L'Osservatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican...
...will lead him to the end of his days on a hunt through all the cultural activities of man to find an answer to his questions. For abnormal psychology, since it deals with all extremes of human activity, the mind behaviour of the criminal as well as the rotarian and the genius, ramifies into all attitudes and objectifications of the human soul. It is preoccupied with hysteria and visions, hence religious conversions, hence ecstasy, hence creative fervor, hence the poetry of William Black. It delves into the obsessional neuroses, hence witchcraft, hence persecutions, hence the devil voices of Cotton Mather...
...Whither Mankind" follows neither cycle. In this symposium Mr. Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view...
...automobile and airplane, by train and on foot, some 12,500 Rotarians arrived in Minneapolis last week to attend the 19th annual convention of Rotary International. Rotarians from Czechoslovakia or other strange places were welcomed in their own tongue by means of painted placards whose wording was the result of much Minneapolis scholarship. Four and a half thousand autos were used to carry the Rotarians about the city; 80 typists copied registration lists so that no Rotarian might remain unnoticed. Before long all the Rotarians gathered in the municipal auditorium, second largest in the U. S., third in the world...
...Sinclair Lewises, the Lardners and the Menckens may continue to direct their shafts against our organization and others founded on the same principles. Ridicule is the weapon ... of a poor cause. They may continue to talk about Babbitry and scorn the Rotarian virtues but Rotary International will be known and honored long after Minnesota's much-read but not particularly distinguished expatriate has been found out as the shallow, superficial, overestimated literary cartoonist that...