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...drama instead of a travelog. They have done a good job. Stampede is a love story. It contains a little manufactured anecdote about the struggle of two young men of the Habbania tribe for a black girl, but its real material is a different kind of love -the instinct, probably more impressive than any other human trait, that keeps the tribe marching toward life, fighting the jungle in the days when the river dries up, when the game gives out. The photography is repetitious of other African researches, but lively, imaginative. Best shot: a tribesman running through a burning forest...
...from imagining themselves equipped by instinct to deal with their children, they [modern parents] read great books about all the mistakes they are likely to make, until they become so terrified that they dare hardly breathe in their children's presence and are tempted to leave the job to what are called 'experts,' i.e., to people who have read more of the great books in question. . . . Freud it was who first terrified parents with the idea that there is something sinful, dark and disastrous in the affection of children for their parents. Watson, who disagrees with Freud...
...finally "gone collegiate." Less than a month ago, several students, sitting in the rear of chapel, decided to make the chapel services interesting by betting on what the number of the hymn would be, the one coming closest winning the wager. In a short time the great American instinct for organization led to formation of mammoth "hymn pools." Students pick their hymn numbers before the opening of the exercises, contribute their dimes, stir with restless anticipation throughout the service, and greet the announcement of the hymn with a burst of excitement. After much craning of necks and much consultation...
...movement continues sterile . . . from a variety of causes. One ... is the want of really compelling leaders, of men of genius having the warrant of creative artists. The other causes embrace an only fitful instinct for truth, an almost fantastical indifference to beauty, and a deplorable neglect of the fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with...
...Clement Wood, TIME erred: it was another Macfadden biographer, one Fulton Oursler who was once a Macfadden employe, As to the "instinct" quotation. Publisher Macfadden errs. "Let nature be the guide." is what TIME said Mr. Wood said Mr. Macfadden said which is exactly what Mr. Wood...