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...mistakes. . . . Most people like to be thought out of the common, and if a youngster finds he can acquire a reputation for eccentricity by refusing to take his food or lying down and kicking, he will do so in and out of season. . . . Remember your child is an adult in miniature with an intense emotional life which is trying experiments through his waking hours. And these experiments are egotistical-the child is quite as important to himself as you are to yourself...
...Government published official statistics showing that the number of adult members of the Communist Party is 699,679. Zinoviev reflected that there are 132,000,453 people in the Russian Union living on 7,041,120 square miles...
...word. Very few of the plays written for the "47 Workshop" are even good theatre. The creative talent is rare, especially rare in the drama and among folk of undergraduate years. Of the productions that have proceeded from Cambridge the largest and better portion have been by adult writers who have entered Harvard mainly or solely for the opportunity Professor Baker offered. But since when have students in the laboratory been master scientists, students of English composition accomplished men of letters? In after life graduates of the Workshop have given a very good account of themselves...
...citizen of the world as well as of the United States; that six hundred thousand people, die annually from diseases preventable by public cooperation; that lawless murder has killed in the last ten years more Americans than all five foreign wars. But the perpetrators of the childlike insult to adult intelligence are not interested in real problems, they want only to affright the masses and enhance the importance of their own position as defenders of those traditions which they tacitly assume the people are too stupid or too indifferent to preserve...
...Liberal party has died, it is because the purposes for which it lived have nearly been accomplished. The great work of the Liberals was to free English political life from the craping molds which bound it a hundred years ago. The extension of suffrage to the whole adult population, the release of education from church control, the freeing of the infant giant of industry from the tariff which favored the old hereditary landowners, the solution of the Irish problem these were the triumps of Liberalism. But they are all triumphs of negation. Once its destructive work was completed, Liberalism...