Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was my consternation on turning to p. 63 of the Oct. 28 issue to see the dreadful picture thereon. How can I explain that your magazine is not that sort? How can I dare take another copy to that sacred place next Sunday, without her questioning my taste in literature...
...bring up the subject she can easily deny (and properly) having seen the pornographic exhibit and put the onus on me, and my efforts at explaining that this was not the usual sort of picture for you to print, or me to look at, will be increasingly difficult if she claims not to have noticed...
...questions which it raises, it does serve as a racy presentation of problems which demand the attention of intelligent modern men. The author's racy style cuts sharply into one's mind and the very incisiveness with which his opinions are expressed cannot help stimulating reaction of some sort on the part of his readers. As stated in the preface, that is the real purpose of the book, and throughout its pages are scattered exhortations to the reader to disagree if he likes but to do some sort of thinking anyway. But there is little to disagree with...
...Weston is a member of the psycho-analytical school of writers, a charter member we should say. His technique springs full-armed from the fulminations of Freud. It is a sort of detective mechanism for discovering the well-springs of character. It is deft in the same way that the technique of Conan Doyle is deft. But instead of clues you have complexes; instead of crimes, weaknesses of character. By taking the stuff of complexes, you arrive at the source of a spiritual flaw...
...compilers of the list frankly confess that its purpose is to "send the players out on the field with fire in their eyes and a keen determination to win." They have obviously failed to catch the amateur spirit and have made the mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which grew out of the annual touching remembrance to mothers. But the same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another defect when applied to the gridiron. Telegrams are delivered on paper...