Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time and TIME will tell...
...essential then that undergraduates be given a hearing upon the question of the house-plan at Harvard. If we succeed in making ourselves articulate, there may be a little we can tell our pedagogues. Upon Harvard has devolved the privilege and responsibility of blazing a trail; and every university in America awaits reports with eagerness. For there are many intensely serious problems that present themselves. How, for instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained...
Said Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincinnati: "Let the behaviorist and psychoanalyst beware. They may be able to use science for the dissection and description of matter, but they cannot use it to tell men why to live or how to live. Freud and Watson are old-fashioned and their psychology is under the overwhelming influence of Newtonian physics. That is of the past and of the past their conclusions based upon it will also...
...terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart patter about their vulgar cousins, the English-"they tell the most extraordinary things-about their, husbands, their money affairs, their insides. They don't seem discouraged by not being asked. And they all seem so intimate with each other ... of course they seem very definite and practical, but it is a pity they talk so much...
...white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression of a short-skirted girl-a picture of a leg superimposed upon the dim image of a face. There is nothing documentary about Stieglitz photographs; they tell no stories, perpetuate no events. They are studies in pure form and tone...