Word: understandables
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...that as it may, the serious-minded Harvard undergraduate will be grateful to The Dartmouth for pointing out this canker to him, and, even more, for prescribing its cure. He has only to understand the other extreme, and then to mix himself up with it. He would be amply justified in demanding a debate between the Advocate and the Varsity Club, or a joint meeting of the Poetry Society and the Student Council...
...attack extremes. Extremes are healthy. Nearly every great man in history has been an extremist. But the enlightened followers of extremes have always deliberately tried to understand, and generally have understood, representatives of the opposite extreme. It is just such understanding which should justify a man in the extreme he believes...
...must help us. You must gently steer the blessed-fool reading public away from puffery and quackery and prurient prudery. You must stand for good English. Not for me, you understand. I am settled, fixed and determined in my way, forward I hope, but not adrift. But I love the venturers who are seeking something real and better...
...possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed to organize the tremendous forces of the East into a unanimity of hostility. A mess of potage for today is not worth a birthright for tomorrow. If the West can never understand the East, it must at least stop to calculate the powers it is arousing and the eventualities it is creating...
...remove it, hinting that "there were those" who would subscribe the necessary funds. Tory critics wrote venomous articles excoriating Epstein. They pointed out that, while the nymph in Green Mansions had been a creature so spiritual, that she required no other garments than cobwebs, so sensitive that she could understand the language of the birds, Epstein had represented her as a "superstitious, brutal-looking figure, with a queer anatomy." They viewed with alarm her orgiastic pose, her huge hands, her Babylonian visage. Unruffled, Epstein replied: "I am quite content with my own work and do not seek the approval...