Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught is based the modern language requirements in Harvard College! Despairing of the possibility of ever teaching the American undergraduate to write his mother (or step-mother) tongue, the authorities still retain some hope that by making every student a tri-linguist they will give him at least the veneer of a literary education...
...keep his hands off. He encourages, suggests, advises rarely, but always the children draw and paint only what they feel. "If it were possible," says he, "I would have my school on a desert island in mid-Atlantic." He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization. As a result the children produce works of unspoiled vigor, naive insight and not a little humor. They are singularly untroubled by the isms and vagaries of modernist Art. There are fancy and fantasy, of course, but all with a highly personalized expression...
...average reader more than a good murder story? When one considers how many books that drip blood are sold yearly, what multitudes of people have crawled shuddering to bed after reading about Marie Roget or the two unfortunates in the Rue Morgue, one must wonder if under the veneer of civilization each person is not an incipient head-hunter. But the conclusion does not necessarily follow. To the average man, if there is such a creature, life is only too mechanical and humdrum. It would be an overdose of ippecac to ask such a man to read nothing but political...
...this was a spiritual movement, then Jesse James belongs in the Hall of Fame as a great philanthropist. This steamship venture was a bucket- shop with a ' spiritual' veneer. Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas and the other Negro leaders after whom the ships were named must have turned in their graves...
...CHILDREN'S CHILDREN - Arthur Train-Scribner's. Old Peter Kayne was a Wall Street pirate. His son Rufus acquired a social veneer over his inadequacies. The third generation consists of three daughters, each of whom meets catastrophe. The last thing to fall is the Kayne fortune. Whatever the accuracy of its depressing picture of modern society, the novel is interesting and often extremely penetrating...