Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imitated author now living--have succeeded in glorifying the seamy side of life in such a manner that it appears far more enticing than any other aspect. The present Younger Generation is working much harder to maintain its reputation than that Younger Generation which immediately followed the war. The task then was simpler: it was a matter of romance and was spontaneous. Now there are standards of depravity which must be lived down if one is to claim membership among the lost generation. Hemingway, with satire as much in mind as anything, painted the scene...
...task is to bring about full cohesion and co-operation between the primary agencies of enforcement. The units of an army brigade . . . can't function as such until bound together...
...Atlantic Monthly for June Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Law School follows a familiar trail of thought to the conclusion that the task of judgement "is not to fit the penal treatment to an abstract crime but to a concrete criminal." In his newly published "The Delinquent Boy: A Socio-Psychological Study" Doctor John Slawson says that the first necessity of the juvenile court is "to treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved...
...editors escaped one annoying task writing the preface--by the admirable evasion of having President Lowell do it for them. Thus the volume opens with a distinctive touch. Most striking of the changes is the novel appearance of the individual pictures of the members of the class. With a daring but successful hand, these cuts have been moved to the outer edges of all the pages, and the "life histories" beside them have been carefully and artistically centered. The dignity of the book is curiously enhanced by this transfiguration...
...diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking too much of the encyclopedia. For study, the book is not adequate; for entertainment and instructive reading, it is as good of its kind as has come...