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From the nightmares of dyspeptic children, from the dreams of opiumeators. from medieval lore of the world comes the conception of monsters with which men cannot cope, from which they cannot escape. Science made banal and dreary these dreams, the cinema transforms them with its touchstone of cheapness, and no one can longer cower awed and terrified before apparitions. Kong, the magnificent ape-colossus, the monarch of a surviving world of dinosauri, stands alone...
...century literature is more or less haphazard. This might be avoided by conducting the course less in the research spirit than is the present English 26. It would need a leader of no ordinary talents, a teacher who stands above the tight world of literary schools and who could cope with a chaos of names. He would have to survey a fairly ordered system of well-known names, such as Conrad, Galsworthy, D. H. Lawrence, and Bernard Shaw; and make order out of the conflicting ideas of the Eliots, the Masefields, the Sinclair Lewis's, and their French and German...
...meet the crack Boston team. Until now our men have confined their sport to baseball and indoor contests. The shooting begins at 8 o'clock tonight and I imagine we could let some of you watch it, in case you want to see what you may have to cope with some fine night...
...spending the 33,000,000 francs, M. Paul-Boncour, an authority on propaganda as France's most expensive trial lawyer, listed other points beside the hiring of muscular young lecturers able to cope with the U. S. cocktail party...
...interested in no particular subject but has a craving for a smattering of almost anything there is one course in the University that is perfectly able to cope with such a vast intellectual search. That course is Anthropology...