Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every...
...main path, the Vagabond was deflected from his original purpose in mentioning a lecture on Richard Strauss, by the fact that that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
Recapitulation. It is significant that a majority of these Dartmouth students seem to believe in God as a necessary sociological force, while at the same time rejecting the major tenets of Christianity, Contrasts...
...somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly in a protest against the prevailing badness", Sinclair Lewis...
Just who is this standardized American anyway? He is, it would seem, an even more elusive personality than this Christian Gauss. For just what are his standards, and wherein lies the vice of standardization so long as the standards partake to some extent of the nature of truth...