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Clatworthy. Dr. Clatworthy was a man in many respects uncommon. To begin with, he had plenty of money; and next, he was as full of crazes as of learning.
The critics term these successes of some recent fictions "crazes," but they are really sustained by some desirable qualities they are cleverly written, and they are for the moment undoubtedly entertaining. Some of them as undoubtedly appeal to innate vulgarity or to cultivated depravity. I will call no names, because that would be to indict the public taste.
She was not much of a reader; life was, she declared, too short to waste in study; but, when she did take up a book, it was generally of a nature that most women of her class would have called stiff, and then she could read it without going to sleep. In addition to these occupations, Mrs. Carr had had various crazes at different stages of her widowhood, which had now endured for some five years.
'Ted was asking for directions in the garden, said Agatha, looking up; 'but when I peeped inside the study, Gwen, and saw you had one of your writing crazes on, I knew it was no good coming to you. 'No, he has plenty of work, and I shall be occupied in the morning for some time now. 'Why have you taken such a fit of it? asked Clare. 'You're writing as if for your life.
One couldn't hear anything more charming, in a perfectly trained voice, and so easily and naturally said. I suppose no one would listen to it in these days. Bridge has suppressed all conversation or music or artistic enjoyment of any kind. It must come to an end some day like all crazes, but at the present moment it has destroyed society.
He wished, he said, his enemies the Cadells could be deprived of this pleasure; but that was impossible, because the crazes and shrewd sayings of Don Quixote and the humours of his squire Sancho Panza could not help giving general pleasure to all the world.
If, in the course of long years, they gradually lose their old faiths, it is only to fill the gaps with new faiths that restate the old ones in new terms. Nothing, in fact, could be more commonplace than the observation that the crazes which periodically ravage the proletariat today are, in the main, no more than distorted echoes of delusions cherished centuries ago.
"There seemeth something below which angers you, my friend," he said softly. "'Tis a battle-light flaming in your eyes." "'Tis the shame of it all which crazes me," I responded, trembling with passion, yet yielding to the influence of his presence. "You have not yet heard the story, so cannot rightly judge our position here."
"Mother," she said, with sorrowful bitterness, "you are well now; indeed, you never were so ill as I was led to believe; and you are independent. I parted with my only hope of happiness in life to render you so; I sold myself in a formal marriage to be the legal medium of endowing Dr. Grimshaw with a certain landed estate. Even into that measure I was deceived no more of that! it crazes me!
The general change and plasticity at puberty English teaching Causes of its failure: too much time to other languages, subordination of literary content to form, too early stress on eye and hand instead of ear and mouth, excessive use of concrete words Children's interest in words Their favorites Slang Story telling Age of reading crazes What to read The historic sense Growth of memory span.
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