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Rabbit hopes depend on these: cox, Allan C. Russell '35; stroke, Lee P. Jordan, Jr. '36; 7, Hamilton Richards '36; 6, Kenneth W. Brown '35; 5, Lawrason Riggs, 3rd. '36; 4, Robert Amory, Jr. '36; 3, William Barnes, 2nd, '35; 2, Malcolm D. Perkins '36; bow, Milton I. Byer...
...bare half-dozen were up to standard; the rest were as undistinguished as run-of-the-mill magazine fiction. Faulkner seldom writes about ordinary human beings. When he does he is careful to hide them in a mist of sinister innuendo. His forte is pathology; his most effective stories depend on madness gradually unveiled. In a novel he has space enough for his tortuous unraveling, but many of these short stories fail to convince simply because the reader has not had sufficient time to become bemused. The four best stories stand out from the rest like so many painted thumbnails...
...superhuman flow of power from the flow of the decisions themselves-good or bad. Eventually he can easily be displaced because of his bad decisions. " 'With Mr. Roosevelt's background we do not expect him to see this revolution through. . . .' "They were sure that they could depend upon the psychology of empty stomachs and they would keep them empty. The masses would soon agree that anything should be done rather than nothing. Any escape from present miseries would be welcome, even though it should turn out to be another misery." Representatives who heard these words fairly twittered...
...that we in this country have been privileged to experience, one recalls none that did not leave in the mind a deepening conviction that he represents, with a peculiar completeness, the ideal of the great interpreter. . . . He has proved to us. by repeated demonstration, that the supreme artist must depend for his spiritual sustenance upon elements no less rare than simplicity and selflessness and faith. He has brought closer to us the greatness of exalted and imperishable things...
...large endowment for that early period, the growth of other endowments, such as that of Harvard, has been much more rapid in recent years. The tuition fees paid at Stanford provide only 35 per cent of the expenses. We assume that our University, must grow steadily. That growth will depend upon the confidence which the public has in the work that...