Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who journey to Parnassus go at their particular gaits. Some hobble, like Carlyle. Some stagger, like Henry James. Some swing along gracefully, like Addison. Some minuet, like Stevenson. Some swagger, like Marlowe. A great, great many simply walk. By courtesy we name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words...
...This style is something very near a record, for Presidents. With random excerpts from Presidential speeches, one can make up statistics...
...After a few years Tokio wil be a new capitol, built in the most modern style," declared Chosaku Hamada, a commissioner of the Japanese Department of Agriculture and Commerce, in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday...
...University of Rennes is a Frenchman who speaks excellently in English and is an authority on Shakespeare. Although his work will lie mainly with graduate students during his sojourn at the University, English 23 is open to undergraduates and the public. For anyone interested in Shakespeare or the French style of reasoning or both, this course will offer unusual opportunities...
...politics and by the loss of the flowery idealism of the Victorian Age and the more recent idealism of the war. He deplores "the wide prevalence of the professionalized attitude toward life" and utilizes this attitude as the basis of an attack on the "attempt of extremists who style themselves Liberal with a capital L to exploit in their own interest the field of liberal thought." Doubtless this statement will be seized upon eagerly by a large section of the metropolitan press, but to the untutored reader it is meaningless without more specific illustrations...