Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assumption that the proper study of the poet is the inner man, and in his poems he soliloquizes with sad coherence on the tangled emotional morals of a static mankind. Poets Auden and Spender are fiercely, often incoherently impatient of all that. Poet Robinson is a calm skeptic; they, passionate disbelievers. More satirical, less serious a poet than Spender, Auden half-fills his book with prose patches: a mock oration, an airman's journal, geometrical figures, a parody litany. Most observable emotion in Auden is scorn: of those round-table experts "lecturing on navigation while the ship is going...
...obvious remedy for the ailment is such an enlargement of the faculty as will give its members proper leisure for research and at the same time secure proper teaching under the preceptorial system. "But," says the skeptic, "where is the money coming from?" And to that question we have no answer--save that it has generally proved true that if the administration of a university shows the requisite vision and resourcefulness, the money generally comes from somewhere. Just ask A. Lawrence Lowell. The Daily Princetonian...
...IDEA OF NATIONAL INTEREST-Charles A. Beard-Macmillan ($3.75). Survey of U. S. diplomacy by a first-rate analytical skeptic...
...dramatic piece for the stage "Days Without End" is badly deficient. It is largely a desk revaluation of the whole life and experience of one man. The device of a mask is used to represent the rational self, the skeptic half, of John Loving. In the first three acts John discusses and debates the ending of his autobiographical novel with his dual self, with his uncle, a priest, and with his wife, Elsa. During his matrimonial happiness, John had once been faithless in a moment of pity for an abused woman. The dramatic point lies in the question of whether...
...Skeptic...