Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice...
Laughlin applauds the sociological approach of Chase to language and quickly adds that linguistic change must lead the way for social change. Regarding language from the poet's point of view, he recognizes its value as the life-breath of civilization and also its mortality. But language has become the master of thinking, and to check this corruption Laughlin advocates a system of education that will teach words and ideas separately. His ideas no language and experimental writing--which tries to remedy language deficiency--form one of the essays in his volume. It is convenient to criticize the other work...
First, participation is an excellent means of education. A student can learn far more about the reality of social and economic questions by group work than by mere reading or observation; this is what hard-headed men call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute...
...accuse the Student Union and its President, Robert Lane, of unsound judgement in urging a program of participation in political and social movements in the college and the community. Without pretending to give a full exposition of the aims of the Student Union, I should like to make just three points...
...humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife of the Austrian Ambassador: "Do you know the kind of woman who always wants to be the centre of social interest? She is afraid of mice, she loves cats, she tumbles down, she burns herself, she upsets her tea on her dress-all this happened in her house the other day. . . . Still, these are graceful blunders. The most serious seems to me to be-talking sentiment. I find it much...