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Hidden somewhere in the dark reaches of the Bostoa Opera House (tradition and the sentimentalists say it is the second balcony but occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...
...replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding the unrestrained common law judge...
...Oswald Garrison Villard employs the current issue of The Forum to paint a dark picture of the future of daily journalism in the United States. The daily newspaper, he says, is disappearing, and he adduces figures to support his contention that the chain system that has standardized American groceries is threatening to absorb and standardize American newspaperdom...
...whether you go to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon, India, or Africa, you find persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when no one could look forward to a cure...
...Heart And My Flesh" has as its scene a Kentucky village. Its characters are the inhabitants of that village-people of strange ancestries, of dark longings. The central figure, more acted upon than acting, is one Theodosia Bell, born of a lustful father and a pallid mother. Briefly, the story deals with her girlhood; it develops her being, shows her as a neurotic, pitifully inadequate to face life alone and yet deprived of every supporting hand. It traces her relations with her father's illegitimate children-three mulattos of varying degrees of insanity. It follows Theodosia herself through an awful...