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...there is another element more important than all, without which there cannot be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. . . . Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant. . . . We have made great contributions to the settlement of contentious differences in both Europe and Asia. But". . . we can only help those who help themselves...
...inescapable romantic element centers about Harry Fender, collar advertisement masquerading as a U. S. lieutenant. He loves Doris Patston, French flower-seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum...
There is only one possible question which may be raised against this proposed union of ideals. A chapel or a church is primarily a structure consecrated to religion, which is permanent and universal in character, and which must regard even the finest elements of war as at best necessary evils. Even though a war memorial would commemorate the highest qualities of devotion and self-sacrifice, these would be inseparable from a conception of patriotism which is purely national. The ideals of religion must be kept above and beyond all considerations of race and country. There is in this combination...
...tradition. The eye sees a head, a landscape, a pattern of concrete objects. All traditional Art, admitting as important this thing seen, accents the reaction of the artist to what he sees, recognizes as an accidental requisite to the presentation of subject and the personality of the artist, the element of style-form, line, color. The artist, running at tradition's stirrup, has employed style as a thrilling, necessary but irrelevant mechanism for the exaltation of personality, of subject; yet it is only by virtue of this mechanism that he is an artist at all. He succeeds or fails...
...past tense of the word "broadcast is exactly the same as the present tense; this grammatical error is quite likely to strike the eye of the educated, to which element it is presumed TIME caters...