Word: formula
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Among the forces that held this incongruous mass together, no inconsiderable part was played by the forces from without that rushed them together under the meaningless formula 'Bolshevik.' The agitators have generally shown more cleverness in making use of this apparent solidarity than the forces of law and order have in depending upon the very real lack of solidarity that a bit of analysis might readily reveal...
With sufficient obsequies to Professor Osterhout and the guiding spirits of the Dinning Association the opinion might even be ventured that the Professor's advice had already been obtained upon this salient point, and that he had prescribed a formula for the mixture to be called scrambled eggs, differing but slightly from his staged elements of fats and sugar. There should be sunlight,--yes, because the resulting product is yellow--and water, too. It is hard, though, to believe in the preparation. Without it, then, the recipe might read something like this...
...Raffalovich has happily preserved his artistic innocence against the brittle formula of the American short-story. Power he has, and fine detachment, and skill. There the story is, layer within layer,--all distinct and complete. The peasants, the bureaucracy, the poet, the dullard, the maniac, the woman are almost ocularly visible, lightened a bit specially by the irony of title and touch, but real as they must be in their local habitation. "Patriots' All" is the best story I have read in any magazine in months...
...Lampoon's prologues in all special numbers are invariably striking, and that for the "--Less" number runs true to form. The three editorials, though constructed according to the approved formula, fall a trine short. The celebrated punch that every editorial needs is parried in each, and the three dissertations therefore miss their mark. But the worst is all over when those pages are passed...
...every year a new class has gone out from Harvard, having completed, its training according to the formula, and accompanied by mingled shouting and lamentation. It is always much as the old Greeks used to put their ships upon the sea, with rites to the adventurous rulers of destiny...