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Macbeth is a play, not so much of men and women, as of the wind and the darkness, witches and their gloomy cries. It has been played a thousand ways, by actors, steeped in the colors of their trade, unmannerly breached with gore, who bellow and rant, who incarnadine its...
In 1828, Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically...
Unfortunately this constructive suggestion has been anticipated by another educational authority, the late Dr. Rabelais. The monk's visioned Abbaye de Theleme contained all the aids and conveniences thought out in the Dr. Park plan. It went further. The only regulation was "do what you will." But this platform unaccountably...
As the final whistle blows, the crowds rise and break into waves to flow out of the stadium. The morning-paper reporters leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns...
So, before long, it did. The ponies, eight of them, loped out and poised for an instant at the field's centre. Then, as if swung off in the current of a centrifugal force, they scattered into dancing pairs, towards the field's edges, towards the goals. From time to...