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Masefield Exhibits Cheap Realism...
...appeal. But he has inspired the country with confidence in his abilities. Mr. Washburn attempts to supply from his own genius what qualities may be lacking in his subject. His loud garrulity makes one realize why Coolidge prefers to keep silent; he supplements for dramatic interest an abundance of cheap farce; he writes of the President of the United States as if he were a hole-and-corner politician. The book drips with New England but from beginning to end there is hardly mention of any other states in the Union. Frankly booming the President, he overstates his case. Coolidge...
...risk of airship operation. But it costs $100 per 1,000 cubic feet and-in spite of the goldbeater's skin covering the cotton bags-it leaks out to the tune of several hundred dollars a day. The British Air Secretary now announces a different scheme, whereby cheap hydrogen will be surrounded with a shell of inert gas, minimizing fire risk at a tenth of the cost of helium...
...skillful an application of his wisdom to modern American colleges, that criticism balks at it. It is, as has been said of many another masterpiece, a setting forth of thoughts that everyone has felt but no one has expressed. And if anyone finds himself disgusted with the cheap sophistication and cheaper knowledge of present generation, let him turn to Professor Perry's volume and plead, with it, for a return to the ways of the Humanists, with "their delicacy of touch, their sense of humor, their essential innocence, their childlike faith in Nature...
...glamor and prejudice of its appeal. And there is little reason to believe that these conditions are radically altered in the present. Unless Harvard individualism--or Harvard indifference, as the critics have it,--is a thing of the past, the University will never be swept by the cheap and ignorant iraternalism of Kleagles and Wizards...