Roosevelt: A Study in AmbivalenceJackson Press, Incorporated, 1919 - 159 pages |
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... American press . It will not even be mentioned . My psycho- analytic interpretation of Colonel Roosevelt contains ... America has revoked my poetic license ? No , that is not the reason . HIS book, dear reader, will be a delightful ...
... American press . It will not even be mentioned . My psycho- analytic interpretation of Colonel Roosevelt contains ... America has revoked my poetic license ? No , that is not the reason . HIS book, dear reader, will be a delightful ...
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... America will mention Mr. Viereck's name again , nor refer to him or his writings in any way . Let the request be made to newspapers to follow a similar course . With his expulsion from the Authors ' League and the record of that ...
... America will mention Mr. Viereck's name again , nor refer to him or his writings in any way . Let the request be made to newspapers to follow a similar course . With his expulsion from the Authors ' League and the record of that ...
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... America do not forgive you for descending from Parnassus into the arena of politics . Poetry and politics are uncongenial companions . " In these days even the shoemaker is a syndicalist . He no longer sticks to his last . Must the poet ...
... America do not forgive you for descending from Parnassus into the arena of politics . Poetry and politics are uncongenial companions . " In these days even the shoemaker is a syndicalist . He no longer sticks to his last . Must the poet ...
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... American citizens , many , but not all , of German descent , who believed that it was to the interest of America to remain aloof from European entangle- The amount appropriated for the purpose of the so - called German Propaganda was ...
... American citizens , many , but not all , of German descent , who believed that it was to the interest of America to remain aloof from European entangle- The amount appropriated for the purpose of the so - called German Propaganda was ...
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... American body politic . In 1914 it be- came epidemic . It is a subject that thrusts itself upon us again and again in the course of this diagnosis . The so - called German Propaganda almost succeeded , against tremendous odds and ...
... American body politic . In 1914 it be- came epidemic . It is a subject that thrusts itself upon us again and again in the course of this diagnosis . The so - called German Propaganda almost succeeded , against tremendous odds and ...
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287 Fourth Avenue admiration American citizen Americans of German attacks attitude ATTORNEY Authors Barbarian Belgium believe Blank blood Britain British Confessions course Dear Dernburg Edgar Allan Poe EDITOR emotional England English fact fair-weather feel Flame foes Freud friends friendship for Germany genius George Bernard Shaw George Sylvester Viereck German Americans German Propaganda Gertrude Atherton hands hate heart Henri Barbusse Hugo Muensterberg Kaiser Labor Relief leader League of America letter literary Louis Mirror ment mind nation never newspaper Nineveh OFFICE OF GEORGE Office of Theodore Oyster Bay PADRAIC PEARSE patriotic Perhaps poems poet poetic Poetry Society political Pro-Germanism professed friendship Psychoanalysis remarkable replied Roose Sagamore Hill seemed Shaw Songs of Armageddon STUDY IN AMBIVALENCE sword Theodore Roosevelt things tion to-day tribute unconscious United Vampire velt verse Viereck:-I Vigilantes violation Whitman Wilson write written York City York Evening Mail
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Page 88 - ... spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 88 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Page 143 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn ! — for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Page 144 - The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his 222 life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is spend and be spent.
Page 143 - But evil things in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate ; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate !) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. VI And travellers now within that valley Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody ; While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh — but...
Page 50 - Literature, art, and science," so Shaw sums up the matter, "are free of frontiers, and those who exploit them politically are traitors to the greatest republic in the world: the Republic of Art and Science." Other narrow loyalties, such as those to particular social classes and artistic cliques, seem to grow upon us here in America almost in proportion as we draw closer to Europe; so that as the dangers of the pioneer stage decline, those of snobbism increase.
Page 144 - Seton. leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us, is spend and be spent.
Page 5 - Bravely drain, then fling away, Break the cup of sorrow! Courage! He who lost the day May have won the morrow.
Page 62 - We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes tlie light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 16 - The relation between the two is that of cause and effect. The one necessarily gave birth to the other.