Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mark Sullivan has made a new definition of history. While wars and elections, battles and discoveries are a part of the record of a given period, they are really important only as they hint at the mood or character of the people who take part in them. To understand a nation, it is necessary to know more than its constitution and its language; the more complete history becomes, the more humble, the more complex and the more exciting it becomes. But as it grows more complex it grows harder to write; selection becomes a game of chance; order...
...world today everything is becoming more scientific, with the result that there is a necessity to study the forces of nature and of human nature. More and more the entire life of our time is being captured by forces of business and modern industries, and it is to understand these changes and movements one should have a first-hand acquaintanceship with industrial conditions...
...chopped small in episodes. These waits weaken interest. Mr. Ames' excellent staging is not so excellent as usual. Mr. Galsworthy's thesis is engrossing in a faintly inhibited fashion. "Gentleman worship" is a cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto the end, a normal U. S. citizen will enjoy...
...Catholic Congress.* This is the U. S. organization of Episcopalians who wish their church to approximate the older doctrines and rituals which still guide the Roman Catholic Church, but without subordination to the papal system. Their wishes have caused great controversy within their church. But few, even among Episcopalians, understand the matter...
...unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...