Word: abstractionism
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They come with and without "Brummy", "snig", and "sportserapana" form perhaps their prize triumvirate. In the order named, these three compose a trochaic line of no dull rythm, and, corralled into a sentence, they provide salutary exercise for those who have given up Sanskrit. For example: "It's a snig...
¶ Delegates representing the interests of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin and Canada called on the President and urged him to oppose any effort by Chicago to withdraw more water from Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes than is now allowed: "Chicago now presents the brazen spectacle of undertaking...
Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at...
The Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down...
When the Advocate, at the beginning of this College year, appeared with a totally new makeup and decided changes in matter, there were many of us, I fancy, who suspected a flash in the pan, and settled ourselves back comfortably in preparation for panning the fresh. With the appearance of...