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...rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes no stock. An incompetent dancer, she schemed her way into the troupe-a fact which Mme Nijinsky admits herself. His fellow dancers always . . thought Nijinsky unbalanced. Diaghilev kept him from...
...deposits not stringent enough. This crisis in banking has impressed the public with the realizations that a bank inspection cannot be superficial if the depositor is to be adequately protected. The general laxity of banking laws made it easy for the czars of high finance to indulge their drunken greed in the field of shady manipulations. It is true they are returning to sobriety in the prisoners' dockets of our courts, but the morning after headache is largely John Public...
...gladhander, he stayed most of the time in his little white house, only emerging to campaign, to tell the public that he was going to take the wild beast of greed by the beard; that EPIC
...town of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he found changed for the worse. At Bradford a reunion of his old battalion made Author Priestley angrily reminiscent of the War. "I have had playmates, I have had companions, but all, all are gone; and they were killed by greed and muddle and monstrous cross-purposes, by old men gobbling and roaring in clubs, by diplomats working underground like monocled moles, by journalists wanting a good story, by hysterical women waving flags, by grumbling debenture-holders, by strong, silent, beribboned asses, by fear or apathy or downright lack of imagination...
...Connor to go out and bring him specialists to help formulate some good answers to national questions. They selected Raymond Moley to corral the specialists. On his second visit, Dr. Moley brought his next door neighbor, Dr. Tugwell. To Governor Roosevelt, Dr. Tugwell stated his prime belief that private greed under the profits system had caused the Depression. At once Mr. Roosevelt and the professor were on speaking terms; the professor