Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...star, that Thoreau enjoyed wind singing on telegraph wires. But machines were only instruments, not manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride." William James at least had a style, the lack of which suggests an organic failing in his disciple. Philosopher Santayana preserves a sense...
...evolution of the college curriculum that before any racial or important changes can be effective in higher education the ground must be fully prepared in the primary, and, more specifically, in the secondary schools. For purposes of effective cooperation in order to avoid those dangerous pitfalls which yawn for the incoming Freshman whenever the purposes of school and college diverge even slightly from the parallel, no finer means could be devised than such a conference as this where discussion is carried on before the background of a college in active movement and in the presence of those who are shaping...
...unfortunate fact that American college students take very little interest in politics or the rather important business of governing the nation. Any discussion of politics foreign or domestic ends briefly and in a yawn...
...indifference. In Boston theatres one often begins to sentimentalize over the closing clinch of hero and heroine, only to be awakened by the solo kisses of the cynical. Here in Cambridge we are beyond this stage. To a Harvard man a kiss is a kiss, and only deserves a yawn. We are not only indifferent about our work, but also about our entertainment. Cynicism has given place to boredom...
When a man has been dead 127 years, when his soul begins to yawn at the pleasures of immortality, lie must certainly count it a full day when he looks down (or up) from the foggy Hereafter and sees two Earthly biographies hopping off presses by the thousands. Such was the case last week with George Washington, hero...