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Economists have proven the iniquities of the laissez faire system by reference to former conditions in English factories and American railways but they forget to mention former marriage conditions in the Caucasus. To buy a wife was then a costly proposition, for besides paying a heavy sum to the bride's father, the groom was obliged to entertain the whole village lavishly on the day of his betrothal. To the poorer tribesman, therefore, stealing or kidnapping brides became almost obligatory, a practice which often led to blood feuds between the families of bride and kidnapper. So much for the evils...
...section, Quiz, in my opinion easily doubles the value of TIME as a magazine of information. Many of us humans are too prone when reading to drift at random through a congeries of facts without relating them to matter already assimilated. Hence we forget what we read. The anticipation of a question upon what is read evokes just enough effort to effect such a relation or coordination, and the fact sticks−we have learned...
...leap out on him at an unguarded moment and make him fire off one of his lead slugs in vain. And here is the little surprise we have been saving. Dreiser plumbered the works when he set out to describe a young man's emotions. He forget that even the most characterless youths have shibboleths to break, ideals to leave behind new paths of iniquity to enter upon with misgiving. Dreiser forgot the psychological and biological metamorphoses of youth; he failed to recall the kaleidoscopic fluctuations even of adolescence. And hence his vapid characterless lad assumed thanks to his consistent...
...what a bib-full! His hero spent pages and pages in a brothel. Yes, boys, he tells you everything about a brothel. And what he doesn't tell you won't matter. But that's nothing! He can write just as much about other things. Sure he can. You forget Ted was a rewrite man for a New York paper. After the hero lets drown his pregnant sweetheart, not wife, whom he wanted to drown anyway, Dreiser gets legalistic and re-vamps a dusty case in the New York State murder archives. (Dean Pound of the Harvard Law School...
Playing Shaw is never an unmixed blessing, and playing Shaw in a repertory theatre is an out and out curse to the leading actors. The Mines one must learn for this week one must forget for next, and Monday night gives no criterion of the excellences that Friday may bring forth. It is manifestly unfair for any reviewer who saw the play on its opening night to advise an audience which will visit its closing performance. Any review must be one of impressions of circumstances which no longer exist...