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Your reviews of all kinds are splendid. Theatrical comment is frank and keen. Book reviews seem to catch the spirit of the author in a remarkable way. Occasionally your musical section provides a masterpiece of writing (e. g., "Bayreuth" in TIME of Aug. 3). The uncommon words you frequently use are invariably well chosen...
Meanwhile the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, in session at Geneva, has asked the French Government for "Official comment" on "numerous petitions, complaints and protests" which have been filed with it concerning the bombardment of Damascus...
...rhetorician would approve this statement for its deft use of antithesis; but, since nothing could be more inaccurate, it is not of much value as a comment on the present problems of higher education. Mr. Williams' picture of the student of the nineties entering college athirst for knowledge but enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were...
...notices a certain amount of pique in American press comment that Europe has got together without America's assistance and worked out some sort of an agreement. It does not fit in with the preconceived notion on the other side of the Atlantic of a hate-torn Europe, which could only be reconciled through the pious efforts of the United States...
...Barrymore's memoirs were neither rowdy nor pornographic, but the measured attempt of an intelligent man to comment cool-mindedly upon his own career. None of the fustian sentiment, like the smell of an old stage wardrobe-none of the gasconnading, the pomposities, the how-well-I-remember-the-night that clutter most actors' reminiscences-nor yet the blatancy that distinguishes those of certain editors-were discoverable in the suave, faintly amused memories of John Barrymore...