Word: johnsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary citizen is content to refute the pacifist by the Johnsonian argument of knocking him down, but all intelligent men, including, tentatively, college men, must admit that much more important problems of psychological morality lie back of the question, "To fight or not to fight?" Dr. Richards will speak tonight on some of these problems as they must be met by Christians...
Next came this Fall an almost Johnsonian smoke shop. Tiled floors and robins egg blue walls and a samovar lured still other aesthetes to these Olympian regions...
...among the dead celebrities of English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian talk and incident together on a thin thread of drama and he has accomplished his end with unobtrusive canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among...