Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clothes are designed by men, made by men, sold by men, and we women buy any old fool thing they give us without even asking where it came from. The vested interests of the world are tied up in clothes and so is politics. France sends us silken garments and so we won't wear the woolen things that English mills turn out, and recently we had to gather our cloaks together with our hands, because buttons were not manufactured in France...
...Planning Conference which met last week in New York refused to go into ecstasies over the greatest collection of tall buildings in the world. One of them Dr. Raymond Unwin of England, even dared to call it "congested impotence". With eyes unprejudiced by the American axiom that the biggest thing must necessarily be the best, these men looked into the future and recoiled at the thought of fifty-story apartment houses so thickly set that the people will have to take turns walking on the street. They believe the solution lies in "satellite" cities, garden suburbs, and an efficient rapid...
...very delicacy of its charm, it has escaped the praise of those who applaud only the more obvious successes. It comes unheralded by George M. Cohan or Arthur Hammerstein, for as yet it has not attained that mature development that such prominence demands. "Baby Blue" is a dainty, fragile thing with a few sweet songs and a great deal of light buoyant humor. After a great many suggestive comedies and heavy revues of the Winter season, it brings with it the fresh, clean breath of Spring...
...extreme is a thing of the pas. "The course system as a method of college instruction masses men into an educational factory. Its only result can be an approach to a standardized product. Humanity cannot and ought no to be standardized. Every student in college presents a different combination of characteristics which distinguish him from his fellow-students. The individual student should be modeled on his own personality rather than on a common ideal...
Perhaps you wonder why such solemn puerilities as I have described are not laughed out of countenance. You must remember that freedom of thought is a serious thing. If there be a grain of truth in a ton of dress, you accept the ton for the sake of the grain. For the world is a big place, and there is room for everybody, and each man has the inalienable right to be as eccentric as he pleases. It is my own conviction that the Why-nots are quite harmless. But think of the wasted energy...