Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring to notice through your columns the actions of a certain set of Sophomores in Memorial Hall. In the matter of loud talking, boisterous behavior, and general vulgarity of demeanor they are unexcelled. If they would indulge in their monkeyshines when there are no strangers about; but they seem to take particular delight in throwing bread, hammering on the table and cursing the waiter when there are spectators in the gallery. Just at this time the public is subjecting Harvard students to a good deal of unfavorable criticism, and it behooves us to be very careful of the impressions...
...past decade. By an amazing ability to eliminate the non-essentials, the author connects all the high spots of recent years in a coherent pattern, at the same time passing judgment on many fallacies and legends that have grown up. The result is that the politics of the world seem to be a relatively simple matter, perhaps too simple...
...drawings of the San Francisco waterfront fall slightly below the high scale set by the other works, for Rubenstein does not quite seem to catch the atmosphere of the place as he does of Jerome. But once again, although many drawings were made on the scenes of bitter CIO battles, Rubenstein is to be congratulated for avoiding any trace of a political strain for one side or the other...
...Seem to realize their fate...
Professor Ransom does not so much defend the obscurity of modern poets as give a lucid explanation of its cause. He says that poets, once bards, patriots and men of public importance, now seem wilfully determined to destroy the prestige that their predecessors have courted for generations. If they write "pure" poetry, like Wallace Stevens, their poems have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being...