Word: sentimentality
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William Graham Sumner was a great teacher. Mr. Keller is an apt, therefore a reverent, pupil. And in this little book, the disciple has painted the master and the man, wholly, alive, with appropriate sentiment. Mr. Keller disclaims all intent of order. One by one, indiscriminately, he picks out the characteristics of his subject and illustrates them with anecdote and incidental background. The result, as we shall see, is something more than a vivid memoir...
...muckraking days are helpful in creating a sentiment so as to secure public approval for drastic reforms, but they also tend to drive capital to hiding places, where no amount of coaxing or bludgeoning does any good. Investors need to be reassured in the immediate future as to the extent of the inflation which the administration may carry on if psychological factors are not to assume an importance which they ought by no means to have nowadays. Several weeks ago there was a better feeling among owners of money than today. Talk of inflation has brought apprehensions. When...
...tyro, for the tyro always succeeds in producing an unconvincing imitation, not of Miss Stein, but of Ernest Hemingway. It would be very depressing indeed if "Winter in Davos" were really the best story Hound and Horn cajoled from its competitors, for its mode is transparent and its sentiment intolerably jejune. Mr. Cunningham is something else again; he has obviously found a technique of his own, and has a good deal to say with...
...Roosevelt's sleeping hours; the second is the farm bloc. A few days ago Governor Langer of Nebraska ordered an embargo on all wheat exports from the state, to be enforced, if necessary, by the militia; Milo Reno is organizing another general farmer's strike; there has been increasing sentiment built up for inflation. These were not casual outbursts, but evidence of the farmer's feeling that he has been excluded from the Recovery program, that his situation has become and is becoming worse through the growing disparity between agricultural and industrial prices. Even as popular...
Proof of this has been well enough evidenced in Japanese sentiment, in the statements of the leading militarists, in the concentration of troops to the north of Manchukuo, in the nastiness over the Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction...