Word: sayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caraway: When it comes to the interests of Pennsylvania, the people of Idaho ought not to say anything...
...Weston is a member of the psycho-analytical school of writers, a charter member we should say. His technique springs full-armed from the fulminations of Freud. It is a sort of detective mechanism for discovering the well-springs of character. It is deft in the same way that the technique of Conan Doyle is deft. But instead of clues you have complexes; instead of crimes, weaknesses of character. By taking the stuff of complexes, you arrive at the source of a spiritual flaw...
...atmosphere of the tale, but it is a mistake to make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance, in the Greene and Canary Murder Cases say and do a lot of idiotic things in an attempt to give his story an intellectual and cultural background...
...were not for the liberals. In their ranks is a fringe of people which cannot be respected, and whose morals are often of doubtful calibre. As a type they are likely to go to extreme wrath with regard to some things, and then to have absolutely nothing to say concerning others...
...know what extraordinary changes have come in the last fifty years in material ways--in buildings, land, equipment. We know, too, how great has been the growth in numbers. I wish to say something on an aspect of the University's development which is not so much talked about, and which bears on the possibilities of the fifty years to come...