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...theatre which serves to kill illusion is the presence of human beings." Come of Age (by Clemence Dane; music by Richard Addinsell; Delos Chappell, producer). Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was the most remarkable child prodigy in the history of literature. Hungry and humiliated, he took arsenic in his bleak London garret, died before he was 18. Many a later poet lamented that Chatterton lived no longer for letters. Come of Age would have it a sadder thing still that he lived no longer for himself. Clemence Dane has clothed this fragile, moving phantasy in verse sometimes remindful of the brassy...
...would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more than $5,000,000, or to possess an estate of more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded almost Capitalistic compared to what young Senator Gerald P. Nye, as bleak a personality as the plains of his North Dakota, told reporters he wanted to do. Far from permitting an individual to receive $1,000,000 in income, he would prohibit any man from accumulating more than $1,000,000 capital. "At the last session," said he, "I proposed a levy...
...Howe spent his evenings writing a novel which he called The Story of a Country Town. When publishers refused his book, Editor Howe printed it himself, a page at a time. Mark Twain compared it to the works of Russian realists of whom Ed Howe had never heard. A bleak, bitter biography of himself and his itinerant evangelist father, The Story of a Country Town was a precedent for the school of U. S. fiction whose ablest current practitioner is Sinclair Lewis. More than 100.000 copies have been sold; a first edition is worth...
...jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From...
...free trade on the entire Soviet peasantry east of the Urals. Stalin had not suddenly become a crackpot. He merely felt able, with U. S. recognition now safe under his belt, to take sweeping, super-drastic measures of defense against Japan. The best defense, he reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil...