Word: slavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attuned to the squawking as well as the melody of the collegiate lyres on the campus. This book reveals both her knowledge and her sympathy. All the contributors are college men and women, but their interests, beyond that single tie of unity, are diverse. Some reveal their slavish adherence to a path which they have not enriched by plundering for old measures and pedantic allusions; others have stolen in order to bring to us something compounded, in the best classical manner of the past and the present as their poetic minds envision it, Hackneyed themes are abundant, much too abundant...
...turn out what is known as the all-round citizen, which means a person who excels in nothing. All-round means small-round." ¶ "Education is in part quickened by migration. Sentimental Americans are forever talking about loyalty, meaning a devotion to places rather than to ideas. We are slavish in our school and college loyalties. For some boys it were better far to migrate from one mental locality to another. Five years at St. Paul's and four years at any college you like, for some natures proves stultifying. Those nine years might better be spent...
...super-secret workings of Adolf Hitler's dread Volksgerricht or "People's Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed in Germany today 'manliness'. "Honor: An 'honor' that delights in defending through brute force and not by the power of argument. An, honor that is too often...
...Calverton's thesis is, as he claims that American literature has at last broken away from a slavish imitation for English models, he is in all likelihood right. If on the other hand it is what it actually seems, that the American writer has been liberated from the prejudices and snobberies of middle-class society, his proofs are sadly convincing...
...craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it. Dennis King was new too as Ravenal, the gambler who marries Cap'n Andy's Magnolia (Norma Terris). Helen Morgan was back as the quadroon with her fluttering hands and hangdog look...