Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicion lingers, however, that if the novel is condemned for scientific leanings rather than for its ability to corrupt the morals of its readers, its is only because the movies and the flourishing yellow journalism of today have so unmistakably gained a superiority in the latter field. The good old era has passed when a specimen of the depraved younger generation was always painted with a box of chocolates and an exciting French novel. At any rate, it is quite evident that the present younger generation is far too impatient to seek in the endless pages of a novel those...
...world by inviting Freud, Jung, Jones, Ferenczi, Brill and other leading psychologists of Europe and America to a conference at Worcester in 1907, at which they fraternized with James and other leading academic psychologists. Hall wasted no time striving for perfect psychological orthodoxy, and was sometimes a bit under suspicion with his colleagues. But his mind was always open, he trained and inspired many of America's first rank psychologists today, and to the end he maintained a lively curiosity for all schools and views. 2. As first President of Clark University, called from Johns Hopkins...
Alexander Woolcott: "... aroused instant suspicion that the others [in competition for the Harvard Prize] must have been pretty...
Aside from some criticism based on suspicion of academic institutions, the Government's move is approved by the Oxford-Tory tradition. The foundation of Toryism was "the land." When "trade" relegated "land" to an inferior position, Toryism lost hold. If Oxford can help to bring back the relative value of land, it will be a boon to Toryism as well as to individual farmers...
Regarding the title, opinions among first-nighters are divided into two camps, the Right holding that "Who's Who" means what it says, and no more; the Left standing firm for the suspicion that the authors are having fun with the customers. Your critic's opinion is that the title is very good for its purpose...