Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim that Mr. Hurley is deliberately seeking to discredit Superintendent Gill is only too obvious when one compares with the actual facts the following statement in the Boston Post: "According to State Auditor Hurley the shortage (at Norfolk) was discovered when Hurley and State Comptroller George E. Murphy went to Norfolk early in November." Actually this shortage ($468.70) was reported two weeks earlier to Hurley by Gill...
...obstacles to the realization of the EPIC Utopia are so obvious as scarcely to need comment. They fairly jump at the reader of the book. Not only is Sinclair's economic theory shoddy, but his Rousseau-istic faith in the goodness of man is child-like in its simplicity. That all the wealthy people in California would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August...
...College--which should not be distinguished from the University, inasmuch as it should be the preparatory and proving grounds for the Graduate Schools--he will concern himself only with the encouragement of creative thought, and it is perhaps almost too obvious to call attention to the change that this will bring about in the face of the University as a whole. There will no longer be those who enjoy a scholarship at Harvard on the strength of ability to get A's: the upper seventh of the student-body will consist--as will the faculty to an even larger degree...
...down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still stout, decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom, the wanderer in search of home, wife and son. Penelope was his wife Molly, Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism...
...anxious to avoid both in order to justify themselves to their own people and to obtain the tacit support of the powers in order to accure foreign loans. So far their policy has brought about a condition which is almost exactly the opposite of that which they want. The obvious solution was to change this policy or rather to appear to change it; actually, their aims would remain just as they always have been, while the superficial metamorphosis would alleviate world opinion...