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...wailed their fears of foreign reprisals. Most drastic and clean-cut fulfillment of these fears came when Canada, biggest U. S. customer, frankly upped all her rates to match. France and England, though taking no action (except on cinemas in France), complained so loudly that much ill-will was bred. Australia's almost complete embargo was a nationalistic move after the U. S. pattern. Only a series of revolutions have checked wall-building in South America, but meantime ill-will has increased...
...Elizabeth Mary Countess Russell. Her first husband was German Count von Arnim; her second, the late John Francis Stanley Earl Russell, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand (now Earl) Russell. Tiny, feminine, aristocratic. "Elizabeth" shrinks from publicity, has never written under her full name. Of her writing, reminiscent of well-bred but intelligent conversation, she says: "Like the Apostle Paul, I never think beforehand what I am to say." Other books: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Expiation, The Enchanted April...
...undergraduate is supposedly proud, has been defined largely by the things which are not done. Among those who so sternly put away childish things the term has come to represent a kind of blank facial water-mark, a certain disinterested preciosity, a docile decency toward reform, and a super-bred horror of the "collegiate." Yet in course of time, it must be pointed out that sophistication is not defined by the things which are not done, but rather by the things which are not done seriously...
...school of "born-and-bred" classicists has recently been reinforced by a younger group who have emphasized the educational value of familiarity with a civilization which contrasts so strongly with that of the twentieth century. Yale's plan for a required course in classical civilization, if well carried out, would provide a more effective means for attaining this end than the usual disjointed series of readings from Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil...
...establishment grew large. She surrounded it with a high board fence. Chief denizens were "saints," all female. Lesser in her hierarchy were "prophets" and "apostles." They bred fowl; dug for themselves a "Sea of Gethsemane"; prayed to a vast, crudely carved Jesus, who was black because the Scriptures did not say that he was not black. Awesome was the Deity, a towering figure the color of roast potatoes, made of clay and burlap...