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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fries and Mr. E. B. Watson miss the point when they seek to criticize TIME for publishing under "National Affairs" [April 9] an account of the unfortunate affair of the two Cox boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...work of Irving Babbitt and Paul More is pessimism for the present and preparation for the future, an establishment of inclusive standards at na time when national literature has run aground in the twin streams of unapplied realism, and unrelated, subjective aestheticism. Agreeing with these critics, Mr. Munson still seeks the seeds of renaissance in the attempts of the young writers he cites. In its broader aspect, this attempt is unconvincing. The youthful obfuscations, artful vignettes though they often are, are such weak voices crying in dissonance with the other weak voices in a wilderness of theory and abstraction that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Contemporaries. | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...have been living in an atmosphere of steadily increasing disregard of the Real--the Real in the sense of that fundamental essence which makes the animal known as Homo sapiens a human being it is now not customary--nor fashionable for a man of letter or an artist, to seek out the essentially human standard by means of his imagination, and then create in accordance with it. Standards are old-fashioned "The Golden Rule is that there is no Golden Rule," says Bernard Shaw, and the mass of Europe and America applauds, and poetizes and paints and composes, not with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROPHET OF THE REAL | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

...least when he can help it. He admits in his preface that there is plenty of poor building in America, as in all countries, but maintains, and it would seem, rightly, that no particular purpose is served in exhibiting the family unmentionables. Where there is so much beauty, why seek out the ugly spots...

Author: By V. O. Jones ., | Title: A Trio of Harvard Books | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...that college training is by no means necessary to business success, and some have gone so far as to say that it is almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in an article in the current issue of Harper's Magazine are particularly arresting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SUCCESSFUL SCHOLAR | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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