Word: compactness
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...love life between a Frenchman and a Marmoset. Its esoteric appeal will be at once evident by the following quotation. "Me. I am hees muzzaire, hees seestaire, le consort of hees soul, le angel of his destinay! she declaimed passionately." Here in a few words is a compact, clear, concordance of the incest theme, inherited through Racine from the great Greeks. The French with their superior sensibility for inferring symbolically the heart of the situation, substitute here a small animal, a marmoset, for the loved one, thereby reducing the horror of the situation which could, otherwise, be unbearable...
...NATIVE ARGOSY-Morley Callaghan- Scribner's ($2.50) Last year Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote Strange Fugitive, and was promptly likened to Ernest Hemingway of Michigan for his brusque, compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk...
...groups of houses so far built by this organization, namely Shaler Lane and Holden Green have met with a well merited popularity from faculty members and married graduate students. The fact that so many units are contained within a small space makes for a congenial and compact society and has the practical advantage of facilitating the management...
...direction last week. The Federal board headed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to deal with this problem advised the American Petroleum Institute, in effect, that what was apparently illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law could be made legal through the little-used state-compact clause of the U. S. Constitution. What smart Secretary Wilbur proposed to the A. P. I. was: Disintegration of its hard-won national agreement to limit oil production to the 1928 figures, into state agreements; legalization of these agreements by each state; consolidation of these state authorizations into compacts or treaties between the States...
...approximate its 1928 output of 1,075,369,847 barrels. Output of various companies will be pro-rated by five regional committees; restriction is apparently on a voluntary "gentlemen's agreement" basis. Had the U. S. oilmen been European oilmen, they might have drawn up a very solemn legal compact involving fines for overproduction and compensation for underproduction. But despite the fact that President Coolidge in 1924 appointed a Federal Oil Conservation Board which consistently recommended co-operation within the oil industry as a cure for over production, the U. S. tycoon is still a little nervous concerning production agreements...