Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster saint of a woman; her occasional distress arouses little sympathy, and her mishaps, due largely to a complete lack of that suspicious intelligence which is recognized by everyone from the cartoonists up as truly characteristic of woman, seem too obviously avoidable to deserve compassion. Her cousin is much more human, though...
...Chesterton has pointed out in his admirable life of the hardly militaristic Saint Francis, there is no essential contradiction between fighting men, and loving them. To believe that there is, however, erroneous as it may be, is not in itself blameworthy. What is fundamentally wrong with the "peace at any price" doctrine is not that it believes warfare inseparable from hatred and condemns both. It is that it refuses us the right to love anything more than peace. To the mass of men this refusal is, in the fullest sense of the word, damnable Nor can those who would decline...
...SAINT JOAN-Bernard Shaw showing that he can be serious, though it takes a saint to move...
...SAINT JOAN-Bernard Shaw administers a characteristic lesson to History, though in the best spirit...
...express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure in the company of young English versifiers. How will he find the atmosphere at the University...