Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the Oxford unpleasantness, we cannot but admire the reasonable methods with which the English always seem to deal with unusual situations. The recent "riot" at Oxford was evidently animated, yet it appears to have been handled in a way that robbed it of real seriousness and made it a matter for ridicule rather than scandal. Obviously they find it both expedient and profitable to make the best of a bad situation instead of making the worst of a harmless...
While the strong men of China welter in anarchy (see above), and her great diplomats flounder be wildered (see below), are there not any cool-browed, wise Chinese wives who keep their own council but contrive to be more important than they seem - perhaps most important? There are many such. But only two wise wives loom from China today upon the international scene. Of these two, one is, strictly speaking, a widow. Both learned the wiles of men and nations...
...Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers; that women were throwing violets at him. Startled...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...
...Robinson Hall, Professor Conant will speak to Fine Arts 3b on "Roman Temples". Augustus found Rome of brick and left it of marble, and much of his building activity was devoted to carving shrines to the gods. Contrasted with the pure spirituality of the Greek temples, the religious structures seem the product of a more decadent age, but nevertheless, they offer to the eye and mind of a sympathetic student a subject worthy of some little attention...