Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been repeated that American literature and drama is controlled by a semisecret cabal of radical young critics residing in New York, but the " exposure" has never been thorough. There were rumors; there were hints; but it remained for The Boston Post to analyze the critical dictatorship with a truly ruthless...
...ruthless sacrifice of the morning and early afternoon hours to lectures and classes appears to be nothing more than an "inheritance from the past" which, like most traditions and customs to which people become habituated, goes on seemingly unquestioned. In past centuries when the only means of lighting was by candles or lamps there may have been some necessity for bringing the students together at lectures during daylight. Now that modern systems, of lighting have come into use, however, such a necessity has been removed and there seems to be no reason for forfeiting the precious hours of the morning...
...they find happiness in a spiritual union. The Significance. Miss Gale has made her study by taking two extremes, the extremely sensitive and the extremely coarse, and putting the former at the mercy of the latter There is in this book something more than a minute and ruthless picture of Babbitts at play. Miss Gale is more romantic than realistic. She likes to look at the other side of the picture, even though it may be turned to the wall. There is no tragedy here except the unconscious tragedy of the Crumbs. The beauty of Leda and Barnaby...
There is but one thing better than destroying an ideal, and that is making one. The assassination of the "Custer" legend is one of the best. In spite of the inconsistencies of the argument, we who dislike the sentimental and saccrime pretensions of patriotism, become overjoyed at this ruthless iconoclasm of tradition's pet. Yet had it better not have lived? Was it not a tale to fire small boys' imagination? Ideals are so easily dispelled. Whenever some hardy spirit tries to plant one in CRIMSON'S fertile rows, a savage hand plucks the puny thing from the ground...
...Father Spaulding Harold Chase did an especially fine piece of work, so fine that it ran risk of escaping notice by reason of its very restraint. Mark Kent made a ruthless and unscrupulous financier, yet with an almost superstitious reverence for the letter of the law. Walter Gilbert's lawbreaker was more than characteristically good; and, playing with unusual reserve, Miss Roach, as the banker's daughter with a penchant for reform, had well-deserved success. And Evata Nudsen made a really charming Gold-digger, perhaps over vociferous at times, perhaps too frequent and vehement in her assertions that...