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...need be, we must become a responsible power in the world, that we must in collaboration with the others who hold roughly our same ideals, organize a large portion of the civilized world in such a way that we may continue to prosper as a national unity and develop the potentialities of our nation...
Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake...
Since cultures develop uniformly, the course of an unfinished cycle can be predicted. As early as 1911, when his great work was conceived, Spengler foresaw for Western1 culture 1) not only World War I but World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...
...Bombay the young sailor met a mysterious American named De Ruyter, one of several men for whom he was to develop romantic attachments. He shipped with him in a privateer. Armed with six 9-pounders, manned by a miscellaneous crew of Arab, Dutch, English, American adventurers, the "lovely little craft" was also stocked with a library. By night De Ruyter and Trelawny (dressed as an Arab) lay on deck, gazing at the Southern Cross during "endless discussion of freedom and revolution." By day they sank other ships, rescued no survivors. Trelawny rescued a sheik's daughter from African pirates...
...addition to the usual two full-scale productions each year, the Dramatic Club will undertake two others "of more experimental nature worthy of production." This new policy is intended to give would-be playwrights and directors among the undergraduates an opportunity to test and develop their theatrical efforts in actual production. Several student-written manuscripts have already been submitted and are now being considered by the Club...