Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a treat vouchsafed to the Supreme Pontiff; for it seldom snows in Rome, and since 1870 no Pope has left the Vatican. Last week, however, came joyous confirmation of the news (TIME, Jan. 14) that Pope Pius will soon cease to be "the Prisoner of the Vatican," self-cooped in his own palace because of a quarrel with the Italian Government...
...Germany accepts the responsibility ... of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies"; but the Locarno Pact (1925), refers to "the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the war 1914-1918." Thus Germany has progressed officially, from the status of a culprit self-confessed and solely guilty, to that of membership in a community of pious sufferers. Needless to recall, the hypothesis of sole guilt is bindingly included in an article (No. 231) of the Versailles Treaty, while the quotation from the Locarno Pact is taken from its mere preamble and is therefore...
...Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim's battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity, with a happy ending made possible by the self-sacrifice of a villain...
...Self-conscious collegiatism has reached the stage where it must be ignored rather than studied. At its best, it implies a uniform lack of originality. At its worst, it means the subservience of the individual to mass taste. The situation is analogous to the stampede of a herd of rattle-brained cattle. The difficulty arises in that the taste is questionable if not distinctly bad. This in turn results from a self-conscious disregard of any authoritative standard. The collegiate person cares little for the opinion or feelings of others. In the last analysis collegiatism is the result...
...President Wilson said it was an attempt "to draw the undergraduates into residential quads in which they shall eat as well as lodge together, and in which they shall, under the presidency of a resident member of the Faculty, regulate their corporate life by some simple means of self-government...