Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking programs prominent men who were able to talk on subjects of interest to the undergraduates, it has been active in sponsoring and encouraging the use of club tables and has had under its direction the Harvard Debating Union. Besides these it has carried on the usual social and athletic activities of former years...
...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...
...title Mrs. Wharton means to suggest that her characters, in their social security, have scarcely realized the ruin they so narrowly escaped. Mrs. Wharton too, basking on the literary peak where she has longtime lived aloof, gives no sign of realizing that she is a distinguished anachronism...
...trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...
...passing of romantic, if cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust...