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...scraps often reveal him better than his letters or his journals; and Mansfield is here revealed in her grievous living, in her streaks of curious repellence, and in her unique, luminous perceptions. Since her perceptions often had the instantaneousness of magnesium-powder flashes, some of her brief entries contain some of her best work...
...epistles contain no other explanatory material, but judging from the number of self-addressed envelopes enclosed, many of them with air-mail and special delivery stamps on them, the question must be an urgent...
...study of Freshman curriculum, made by the Board, shows that over 40% of the present Freshman class include no course in the Natural Sciences (including Mathematics); that about 37% contain no course in the Social Studies (including Anthropology and Psychology); and that (unless English A and an elementary foreign language, which are practically prescribed for most Freshmen, are included) about 23% include no course in Humanities...
...Explained a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London: "If it was generally known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim was that of 25,000 packages examined in three months, 17,000 did contain "contraband"; besides food and food orders, cash was being sent in Argentine pesos, Swedish kroner, other foreign currency, to bolster Germany's dwindling supply of foreign exchange; also diamonds, pearls, and maps of "potential military value...
...considerably less abstract and has a great deal more mass appeal than an instrumental work. It is rather hard for the average singer to resist the temptation to sing down to a public. Very rarely does one find a singer who will announce a program which does not-contain at least one group designed to attract a crowd...