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Sirs: TIME'S scintillating, crisp, news style is hav ing a widespread effect on advertising copy, and magazine writing. Here lately I detect it in almost every magazine I pick up. Perhaps buried deep down in some article or some adver tisement, but nevertheless there, with its char acteristic sparkle...
...accounts, is the best play ever written by famed Anton Chekhov; which, for many intelligent persons, makes it the best modern play written by anyone at all. It was previously offered to Manhattan audiences, in highly pantomimic Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their money and who are forced...
...vicious circle. By way of striking a note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet methods...
...detect by daylight what the first scout line may have passed in the dark-8 cruisers...
...Lastly, it is getting increasingly hard to overlook one more truth. That is the net results of our regime are not all that might have been forecast from the precocious aptitude with which we detect the shortcomings of our predecessors. In other words we find we aren't so darned funny as we originally considered ourselves...