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...Professor Matthiessen skirts the unnecessary, lightens the formidable and weighty, and breaks through to his audience with authentic and original views of the works at hand. Those who know what most lecturers could do to revolutionary ballads are grateful. His method in any of his courses is hard to explain in fast terms. It seems to be what it is by virtue of his realization that books should be a criticism of life. Most of the Harvard faculty seem to go on the working assumption that life is the criticism of books. Having endured the attrition of English and American...
Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How, for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Ball, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of a Spanish commissioner in the common goal, with...
...course affords students who can face a group of persons without embarrassment, and present information that is clearly thought out as it is sure in presentation. It may be a student of Fine Arts addressing a group of committeemen who are planning a museum. It may be a physician explain- ing a recent case to a small audience of fellow doctors...
...quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation...
...hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National...