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...sunned himself on the yacht's fantail, went swimming, loafed, read. One day jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
Some girls save ticket stubs as reminders of pleasant evenings at the theatre, other people buy glossy brochures from lobby hawkers describing intimate facts and figures of dramatists, many Harvard men have only pleasant memories of time spent in Howardian delight; but the University knows no bounds in its mementoes of theatrical history...
...little musty and more than a little talkative, but audiences are likely to wonder whether it is possible to get enough movie talk as good as this. Caesar and Cleopatra was written nearly 50 years ago, but as a comedy of youth and age it is an enduring delight; it is also a fascinating, vividly contemporary study of leadership. Shaw has examined the complexities of cynicism and benevolence, megalomania and selflessness, intuitiveness and hard reason, passive resistance and calm brutality, which combined to make the soldier-statesman. His portrait shows Caesar to be a man as far beyond mere knowledgeability...
...since Locke is corrected. The West knows, for example, the science of the soil. The East, with its intuitive, contemplative knowledge of mother earth knows a lot that has no place in the West's scientific structure, and thereby finds the West's systematizing barren of much delight and wisdom. It is Professor Northrop's ambitious aim to try to "correlate" the esthetic and the theoretical into a philosophical ideal that will do for all civilization the world over...
...four decades Pierre Bonnard has changed neither his style nor his subjects. His lushly colored, impressionist scenes of French life delight the eye, make no demands on the mind. Having neither the audacity of Matisse nor the intellectuality of Picasso, he turns constantly to the commonplace: simple cottage interiors, village streets, somnolent nudes, bowls of fruit or fish, all as familiar and soothing to his fellow Frenchmen as old bed slippers and good wine...