Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body in the College would have thought an article by a member of the Semitic Department on student or world problems worth reading. At first blush it does seem a far cry from the reading of archaic manuscripts and teaching ancient Jewish philosophy to thinking and writing vigorously on vital human problems of the day. Yet those who knew Dr. Wolfson (now Assistant Professor) would have been extremely disappointed not to have ready just such a searching analysis of the "mis-named Jewish problem". He has been one of those brilliant lights of scholastic achievement, who, unless brought to light...
...respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...
...wages is essential. The present Shipping Board, under a new Administration, has an old task, but must attack it with every energy and real ability. A nation with the power and command of the United States cannot afford to remain a hundred years behind the times in anything so vital as shipping facilities...
...vital need of force in swinging the balance of power from the side of capital to the side of labor is clearly and plausibly argued. That organs, such as Parliament and the press, which have as their chief aim the continued existence of the state of society in which they had their origin, can be used as effective weapons by those who plan the overthrow of that state of society is a proposition of doubtful validity at best. The aim of communism is not to reconstruct, not to build on the old foundations, but to sweep away all that...
Concerning the tendencies of modern poetry. Mr. Markham was optimistic. "The tendencies are all away form the pure fantastic and unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt...