Word: contemporize
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...arresting because it often seems unconscious--that the young man who is the product of "bourgeois" civilization, the student at Harvard, capable of writing, of enjoying the benefits of leisure and culture, has himself very grave misgivings as to whether he is not possibly a superfluous luxury in the contempor- ary world. From this point of view, the almost feverish concentration upon social problems exhibited in these pages seems to present the undergraduate, throwing aside amatory poetry and exquisite prose as the playthings of the nursery, hastening to catch up with the social procession, not now with the intention...
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