Word: sordidness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation, we are often criticized by Europeans, for a sordid sameness of life and institutions. Our cities, they point out, present the same square uninteresting outlines; the talk, in our homes, runs along the same tract of mediocre intellectuality; our youths and men are all alike even down to their gestures and vocabulary. Where, they ask, are our great scientists and statesmen...
...Peace Union says our national honor is not the issue. Of course, we have long since repudiated being our brothers' keeper, though we once signed something or other about Belgian neutrality; and of course protection of our own citizens and our own property is sordid materialism, not a matter of honor...
...complains bitterly of the sordidness of Wilson's diplomacy; never has a campaign been waged on a more frankly sordid basis than Hughes own! There has been only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes...
...February number of the Monthly does not loss in interest though it presents a surprising contrast to the "Pagan" issue of last month. The figures and sentiments of antiquity no longer flit through its pages; they are replaced by comparatively modern and sordid actualities; like the U. S. Foreign Policy, the "Movie" and the Theatre and the Harvard Regiment. The prevailing note of the number is non-fictional; indeed, the only serious criticism that can be brought against the Monthly of 1916 is the absence of anything particularly creative in the realm of the short story...
...life is sordid and miserable until he finds some great idea which can truly claim his all. Just as a river passes by and serves towns and forests, but does not turn aside from its course toward the great calm of the sea, so the soul, allowing and providing for necessities, still makes its only aim union with the infinite. A poem, to be understood and appreciated, must have one central theme; in the same way life must have its one great purpose and aim or the whole is meaningless and confused...