Word: uplift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Randolph and in the lounges of clubs, pages shouting as they make the rounds. "Two sober young gentlemen for a dinner at the Somerset." "Four assorted blonds and brunettes for a coming out party at the Copley." And in the Freshman Halls. "Fourteen well-recommended boys. The Brattles to uplift the boys, the boys to educate our daughters...
...England, George Bernard Shaw, in the course of a debate with Hilaire Belloc, described William Jennings Bryan, leader of the prosecution in the Scopes case, as "a man with an extraordinary uplift and no discoverable brains of any kind...
...Parker '98, music critic, in a review of the same performance, speaking of the immense amount of preparation involved, said. "In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper pursue such endless and exacting toll. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. . . .Self expression and release are the better words with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...giving their time to having their neighbors' children, while their own children are left to shift for themselves and do as they please. "What we need is to get back to the simplicity of the oldfashioned, truly American family circle, and to stop a lot of this uplift gush, this indiscriminate spending of money in social and charity and welfare work. In short, while welfare clubs, organizations and societies are meeting, conferring and resoluting, the home and fireside, the bulwark of good citizenship, is left in charge of the cat and canary. "Can we wonder that our children...
...pleasure, will our youth yet give themselves because this music and this singing frees they know not what quickening within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...