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...that often sinks to sophomoric levels. In his laudable attempts to English the dead Latin facts, Author Pratt sometimes makes his English livelier than lucid: "He was disposed to hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow up, which was interrupted by a message that plunged them all into the well of misery together. . . . The old man hardly seemed to care, numb to an aching misery, not so much that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable to himself...
...personal standard of values and produce disillusionment. But although individual sorrows are unfortunate, I feel that they offer the only true subject for tragedy. The tragedy of the 'forgotten man,' of economic misfortune, can never reach great heights. The drama of deep personal woe, which is nobody's fault, but which comes from an inevitable accumulation of adversities, is the only legitimate subject for real tragedy...
...presenting the factual matter no fault can be found with the regime. Memorizing slides is as necessary as learning a vocabulary, and lectures and reading cover the ground more thoroughly than Bacdeker. But the course breaks down in not tying together the monuments and paintings with their literary and historical background, and in considering wherein they appeal to the modern amateur critic...
...Francisco, Sprinkler-Driver Al Elliott kept on sprinkling the city streets through a driving downpour. Haled before city officials, he indignantly asked, "Why should I drive in and lose half a day's pay? I was told to sprinkle the streets and I did. Is it my fault if it rains...
...suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception of a few strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear as a lithe, graceful woman 25 Ib. thinner than she used to be, to see an Aida who appeared not like a prima donna stained brown for the occasion, but like the sultry, brooding slave girl that Verdi had in mind...