Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church, cannot be blamed for being somewhat discouraged by an altitude of opposition to all original effort and enterprise. If the young people of today lack religion,--and it has been the fashion for their elders to say so frequently particularly since the war; is it heresy to suggest that it is the church which lacks life rather than they? Young men will think if they are given something to think about; and most young men, although they hesitate to admit it in their more flippant moments, think about religion. Any attempt to confine their religious beliefs within the narrow...
There appear to be two committees proposed. The less important one is to take up the question of capital removed from Germany. What this means is little if anything. The committee will have no power to recall that which has already left Germany. It can only suggest ways of bottling in what movable capital still remains within the country. The work of the other committee is to consider the means of balancing Germany's budget and of stabilizing her currency. Unfortunately this fact touches the outskirts of the problem. The German nation, to all intents and purposes...
...Melancholy Adventure", might have been the greatest story in the book; might even have been the greatest story. But in this instance, as in Mr. Maugham's ghost story, the author failed through the attempt to make the commonplace suggest the emotional. Mr. Boyd loses his laurels by pure timidity. No doubt one says less than he means, and it is an offense to open the heart; but Mr. Boyd plods with matter of fact foot along a path where Merrick would have sung with "voice memorial". Perhaps it is not timidity that led Mr. Boyd astray; he sinned...
...would be willing to serve as an Honorary and Advisory member of the Alumni Executive Committee of the Republican Club of Harvard. I should be very glad to act in the capacity you suggest...
...much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from it. To them, realism consists of the painting of life as something which has its morbid moments; but these moments they find it better in their art to suggest rather than to display. When Sherwood Anderson's hero in Many Marriages divests himself of his clothes and parades naked before a glass, he is not only symbolical of the idea of Mr. Anderson's novel but of the strange and exaggerated narcissism of the younger realists...