Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Miss Amy Lowell's article in the "New Republic" on "The New Manner in Modern Poetry" is held up to scorn by Mr. Bullock. He exposes the fallacy of the "Externalists" who suppose that it is ever possible to be "interested in things for themselves, and not because of the effect they have upon oneself"; he disputes the pretension of the Imagists to have done away with egoism. Mr. Bullock is a little too hard on the Imagists, but not nearly so hard as they are on all their rivals. In general, the public is now folerant enough of their...
...revolutionary temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope...
...entirely apart from that controversy, the pacifist has a message. No matter how well prepared we might be, there would still remain the problems indicated in such phrases as "A World Court," "World Reconciliation," "The World State,"--titles of courses to be given at the Conference. Let us not scorn the "visionaries"; for ideas eventually conquer the world. Let us rather hear their message sympathetically; and then, inso much as it is good; let us work to build the public opinion which will make it effective. It is news of peace at this time that is most thrilling,--not that...
...have been told there was once a day when the Illustrated fell just short of complete respectability. It is a hard judgment; but the scorn of the established literary institution for the yellow upstart is proverbial. The United States is said to be daily gaining in military strength by the European adoption of the Kilkenny Cat policy. By a similar path the Illustrated has emerged into the front ranks of the University's "best." It is to be both expected and highly desired that the Illustrated will do an ever increasing share of the representing of Harvard to the outside...
...with no ungenerous hand. His contributions to Harvard were countless and unstinted. "The immense University Museum, costly in the monetary sense, and absolutely unreplaceable for its carefully gathered specimens, is almost totally owing to him. The money he put out to build and enlarge it he would scorn to have mentioned. But no monument would suit him better than its curious and precious contents which were his life work and his life-long...