Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course it is not possible to include the ballots of the undergraduate and alumni bodies in decisions of minor importance. But certainly all members of the faculty, professors, assistant professors and instructors should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored! Small wonder they pack up and go to a university which does not refuse to recognize their potentialities by a guarantee that they will be maintained for a reasonable length of time. Yale cannot afford to sacrifice good teachers to other...
...members of the faculty . . . should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored...
...Frenchmen (Bonnard, Braque, Duffy, Seganzac, Laurencin, Marchand, Marquet, Matisse, Utrillo, Vlaminck) are all seduced by wonder, preoccupied with the intricacies of moods, of surfaces. The pinguid fingers of Matisse's Jenne Fille au Piano strike from the keyboard notes that drip with colored stridence, red like the shuddering walls, waxen yellow and scarlet like the overripe fruits on the table. Duffy's Trouville clutches the beach insecurely, as if at any moment it might balloon, mad with gaiety, into the seawind, and shatter its striped pavilions on the salvoing clouds. Bonnard's Le Palmier is a jungle as gemmed...
...special significance. They see about them "liberals" among Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, hard pressed to maintain their freedom of thought and action against "fundamentalists." They think liberals should become Unitarians and even charge them with intellectual dishonesty for not so doing. Their current literature and speeches express the wonder that men whose minds are open to Science can remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration. But it was not the motes in their brothers' eyes which inspired the opening sermon delivered by Rev. Paul revere Frothingham Boldly he analyzed: "We want a divine inheritance and a spiritual birthright...
...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 go wrong? Petted, pampered, educated at the expense of the State, robbed of self-reliance and independence, we send them forth as weaklings to take up the rugged path of life for themselves...