Word: defections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another defect is that our education has too often meant conformity to an accepted pattern rather than release of energy in construction...
...your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye. I wish now to express my approval qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should not the department...
...following portentous sentence: "The main thesis of this volume is simple and lucid, to wit: that critical-mindedness spells enlightenment while credulity spells superstition; that America, speaking educationally is persuaded that critical-mindedness is a crime against bad manners; that the capacity for self-delusion is the over shadowing defect of the human mind, nowhere more in evidence than in optimism-haunted America; that the pursuit of knowledge somehow manages to ignore the pursuit of wisdom; that facts are mistaken for comprehension and information mistaken for insight; that, in short, our education stresses credulity, subtle superstition, make-belief, self-dupery...
...dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance, forgave this defect...
...performance," Mr. Mitchell added: "and it was caused by the organization in this country which has always impeded and held up aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel and to express my sincere appreciation for the prompt and efficient manner in which they cared...