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...real Harvard indifference is not a contempt of so-called collegiate enthusiasm; its more serious manifestation is indifference towards human personality. . . . Most cases of maladjustment at Harvard are influenced directly or indirectly by this atmosphere of indifference...
...most likeable comic hero. Evelyn Laye, his English wife, retains her dignity and quiet charm even through the clowning required of her, and does some expert singing to boot. Adele Dixon, conspicious for the daring of her gowns, manages to capture a respectable French accent, French raciness, and French contempt for British beefsteak...
Brash old George Bernard Shaw, who coined the word "Bardolatry," has never denied that he is a better playwright than Shakespeare. For Shakespeare's Cymbeline he has long had particular contempt, has called it "stagy trash of the lowest melodramatic order." Last week London play-goers had a chance to see an allegedly improved Cymbeline, by Shakespeare & Shaw...
...Nanking. Japanese contempt for noncombatant lives and humanitarian institutions, such as hospitals, was the outstanding feature of the bombing raids of the last weekend. Ninety-five Japanese planes made deliberate attempts in two successive raids to raze the 500-bed Central Rockefeller Hospital, although the Japanese claim this was occupied by the military...
Most shocking declaration in the pastoral, thought the letter writers, was that the Civil War is "an armed plebiscite." Replied their letter: "An 'armed plebiscite' is an obvious absurdity, sinister in the contempt it reflects for democratic procedure." Taking Catholic partisanship in the Spanish war as partisanship against democracy, the U. S. letter asked: "Is this to be the policy of the Catholic Church in other democratic countries, where antecedents of the present Spanish struggle were fought to a conclusion centuries ago, and Church and State permanently separated? . . . Certainly the contrast between the respected and secure position...