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People who love crowds are going to be in their element this weekend. Sellouts are the rule all over Boston and Cambridge, as proprietors from Bill Bingham down to the Greek on the corner prepare to welcome 57,000 crazy football fans...
Beginning with Ash Wednesday (1930), Eliot left little room to doubt that the religious element was the most important to him, and that there was nothing temperate about his approach to this subject. He said: "If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin." His criticism of democracy was not aimed at its defects, but at its inadequacy, its incompleteness. Democracy without Christianity was not so much the opposite of the police state as it was its forerunner. "Liberalism can .prepare the way for that which...
...wrote: "It was something of a discovery for audiences to find [them] works of a poet and a craftsman hardly surpassed by any musician now among us. Of course, they were written nearly 40 years ago, and had been so successfully reviled by commentators . . . that the performance has an element of daring." Manhattan's New Friends of Music, in a daring mood too, is playing a season of Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg...
...general or politician. Disregarding American advice, he has constantly wrecked his military strategy by mixing it with politics. He has wasted American equipment by sending his recruits into the field after only a month of training. Most important, he has relied more and more heavily on the extreme reactionary element in his party, thus driving the liberal intellectuals into the communist camp...
...game itself one to achieve this end. Though Princeton was clearly the superior team, and was never headed, in allegedly fifth down Tiger field goal created an element of discussion. And when three of Harvard's best players sustained injuries, one from a blow on the head, the effect was hardly to restrain the animosity which the opposing stands felt for each other...