Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Daniel Marsh of Boston University indicts a philosophy of the tragedies. It is materialism, he declares, that drives students to take their own lives, materialism that is, among other adjectives that the Boston sage applies to it, "mechanistic, behavioristic, analytic, naturalistic, and humanistic." It has brought about "a recrudescence of the jungle," and not until man finds again in his scheme of things a place for "a personal, self-conscious God," will the American undergraduate be safe...
Resourceful, sage, the proprietor at once secured a black tomkitten. Patient, he began to train it to doze upon the bar and uphold the traditions of the house...
...only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from Lake Michigan." This amendment the midwesterners, who had sought a version reading ". . . does not affect in any way the question of diversion . . ." were obliged...
...These phases of his life will be of tremendous, importance to his biographer, but it is rather his later years that will live in the realms of Harvard legends. It is the white-haired man with his full, straight lips, and the direct expression in his eyes, the eloquent sage, the national oracle, who concerns the undergraduate to come. The forces that made him this were perhaps the same that aided him throughout his whole career, but it was only in that rare fruition of life which it is given to so few men to enjoy that Eliot could round...
Pygmalion. G. B. Shaw's sage play with a wink is enjoying flawless production at the Guild Theatre. Under Philip Moeller's direction, it emerges a dramatic symphony. Lynn Fontanne (who spent her summer in London picking up a cockney dialect and wardrobe) plays the wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season...