Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plan. These latter have no college fame to preserve by clinging to the old order, nor are they necessarily selfish in their disapproval of the quadrangle plan. The accusation that only insincerity and selfishness on the part of a few have prompted criticism of the quadrangle plan would seem as groundless in the case of Yale as it would have been last year in that of Harvard...
...debating visitors from Oxford and Cambridge seem to have had a greater influence on Harvard forensics today than on those of Boston College. . . At its worst, the English style is aid and comfort to the enemy. It suggests triviality, lack of seriousness, immaturity, meagre preparation, an inclination to turn a serious occasion into a holiday...
...business recession changed his belief that: "It is unnatural to curtail production of anything. . . . Any plan to manipulate conditions and retard production is inadvisable if not ruinous. . . . Machines eliminate drudgery. . . . Strange as it may seem, the more machines in operation, the more men at work. There are more men working today by 50% than at any time in the history of the world, and the standard of the worker has been raised to a much higher level...
Simple as these tales, their presentation is made to seem curious to occidentals by the antique conventions of Chinese drama. A formalized art, devoid of spontaneity and realism, it uses little scenery other than chairs and tables which may represent almost any architectural feature. The actor expresses himself in turn by speech singing, gymnastics and dancing. Fearsome, comic masks and face-painting, costumes, and a whole intricate play of gesture have complex, traditional significances (stooping, for instance, means passing under a lintel, i. e., entering another house). The singing is accompanied by one musician producing whining, squealing sounds...
...type, except for being a little more galvanically lively than the ordinary, his is a story that tells much about Manhattan, about the hundreds of thousands of Manhattanites he represents. He works because he has to, in order to have fun-also because he has to. His fun may seem cheap to you; it was expensive to him. One night cost him most of a week's pay; taking a lunch-counter waitress to the cinema, then a round of speakeasies, taxis, dancing, drunkenness, a fight; home again in the subway to catch two hours' sleep before...