Word: salient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More than 150 years ago a silly young Scotsman came to London. The two salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author...
Author Benjamin, describing prodigious doings, allows himself to become infected with the superb extravagance of his subject. He rhapsodizes too readily, too insistently points the salient qualities, too rarely sees the subtleties fused in the character of Honore de Balzac. Mediocre translation has not improved the book which is, all in all, a cage too small for its canary...
...students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects the writer--and this is at once his most salient and vulnerable point this tide is too enormous, too appalling, to be accepted as fate. Some place between matriculation and the commencement platform there is an evil--one which has no place in the lives of what in all correctness may be presumed to be the hope of the nation...
...have no sympathy with Communism. Its principles and aims are opposed to all my traditions and interests I am not asking a reconsideration of the case because the accused are communists, but because, after having read those parts of the record which are relevant to the salient points raised by the appeal and the motion for a new trial, I am convinced that there is at the very least grave doubt as to the guilt of these two men now awaiting execution...
...every direction, nothing clear and nothing definite; no leadership, no guidance, no appeal to our nobler selves. We lost the War and we are drunk by a prosperity which has made us so indifferent that, the gates being left unguarded, the domestic enemy has entered and taken every salient and every trench. What has the country gained at home?. . . The crassest of materialism reigns in Washington by grace of Woodrow Wilson's plunge into the War, and where materialism is there sits corruption. The Denbys, the Falls, the Daughertys, the Dohenys, now all condemned by one court or another...