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...dignified and nobody in the solemn gathering seemed aware of the Colonel's absence. Silence fell over the group as they prepared to listen to the speech of presentation. The Colonel was still not present and it seemed that for the first time in many years an important college function would pass without the grace of his genial presence. A moment before the speech was to begin a slight rustling was heard on the edge of the crowd and those who watched closely saw detecting at its very height. The worthy Colonel emerged most silently from the bushes, sneaked...
...irresponsible, took to drawing strange circular designs spotted with eyes, fanciful butterflies with faces like his own, spiders which suggested Diaghilev. He was found one day walking the streets with a great cross on his chest, exhorting the villagers to seek God. His last dance was for a society function. He made a cross on the floor, danced with such fury that the audience sat frozen with fright. Diaghilev visited him once after that, wept and said: "It is my fault, what shall I do?" Madame Nijinskaya ends her book with the prayer she said when she first saw Nijinsky...
...German people with shimmering magnificence will certainly be dissipated by the passage of time and the necessary and inevitable failure of Hitler to make them into realities. I think that once faith in the success and truthfulness of the Nazi programme is undermined the Propaganda Ministry will function with just about as much force as it does in, say, France. There is no evidence to show that censorship is successful merely because it is thoroughly repressive. The Russia of Alexander III was certainly subjected to as stringent a repression as is modern Germany; yet in spite of this revolutionists were...
...writers and speakers who proclaim tearfully either that we are now committed to communism and collectivism, or that we have adopted fascism and a dictatorship. The real truth of the matter is that for a number of years in our country the machinery of democracy had failed to function. . . . There are some people, of course, who do not think things through; as, for example, the man who complained in one of yesterday morning's papers that criticism was held to be unpatriotic. Let me put the case so clearly that even his type will understand. . . . The critic is unpatriotic...
Matthew Smith, Mechanics Educational Society of Detroit (automobile labor): The NRA is definitely scared of Ford and General Motors. Labor has been fairly patient but now if the NRA does not function old-fashioned strikes will. . . . We have tried the law but we are disillusioned and have no faith in it any more...