Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college life easier and more pampered, is a policy, which can only make him less fit, not more fit, for the very conditions of difficulty which he must face in the economic world of today. As President Hopkins quietly points out, there has been a surfeit of argument about what the colleges should do for their students, and a dearth of plain emphasis upon what these young men should do for themselves. "Much has been said about making the absorption of learning less difficult, the conditions of college life more comfortable, and the adverse judgments in regard to indolence...
...warm. For all the court intrigues,Greek women, tramp steamers, (but not even an airplane) it is evident that Insull himself is not a romantic person, such as some old Stuart Pretender or Confederate General. It is probable that the sympathy which he is getting in Chicago marks the surfeit of investigations, mud-slinging threats, and big-banker circuses to which the country has been treated since the beginning of the reform administration...
...what was once a surfeit of young Swedish princes, only three remained in good standing last week: the Crown Prince's eldest, Gustaf Adolf, who is safely and royally married but childless; his unmarried youngest, Carl Johan; and unmarried first cousin Carl. Royalty's joke of the week was that the Bernadottes were playing "Going to Jerusalem" for the throne...
...indeed, dominates the work of Kollwitz now being exhibited at the Germanic Museum. Not Death as in the silent senseless repose of the dead, but Death hanging over slowly departing life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite...
...offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with him for six months, served his master perfectly but inhumanly, surprised him when they said good-bye by shedding tears. The title's only relevance...