Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pompeii: "No wonder God overwhelmed it with dust and ashes. I hope he'll do it again...
Intelligent and tolerant minorities, however, existed in the United States in the early days of the nineteenth century, and they exist in Germany now. It is idle to rail against the German people, in Bishop Manning's fashion, and wonder how Goethe or Schiller could be reconciled to the illiberalism of the Nazi party. Criticism on such grounds becomes merely sanctimonious, for the evil is not in the whims of any represented majority, but in the fact that modern democracies have insufficiently represented minorities. Were the less numerous and more enlightened factions to have true proportional representation in the United...
...great fashion books of the country play up the slightest innovation at New Haven and Princeton, while what the men of Cambridge are wearing is neither interesting nor original. And who can wonder at this, when a hundred odd undergraduates, representing a cross-section of the University, chose such a dilapidated and absolutely worthless hat as rests upon its plush cushion in Boston as the Master Hat of Harvard, the result of a recent publicity stunt of a local humorous publication? The layman of the street, and his wife, stare at the apparition in its pose of state, and with...
...equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them that music belong to life. At least his music does. Los Angeles Times...
...Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral triangle can seem like in March...