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Americans long ago made their choice between Dictatorship and Democracy: "In the U. S. the choice is made—made by reason and instinct. . . . But there is another question. Can tolerably satisfactory relations ever in fact be established between peoples free and peoples in chains? Is not the gulf too wide? . . . Intercommunication across the abyss has become almost impossible." Dictatorship and democracy literally do not speak the same language: "How, specifically, are we to discuss art with people who say 'art' and mean 'propaganda,' to whom music by Mendelssohn is not music, and poetry by Heine...
Sole clue to the affair was a drunk who yesterday afternoon entertained residents of Leverett and Lowell Houses whose windows face on Plympton Street with a lengthy, dissertation on "Sex and The Monetary Instinct...
...Heaven than that they are to be inhabited here and hereafter by his Joans and his Peters?" But Virginia Woolf's criticism is usually appreciative. Her critical motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of a whole-a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing...
Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...
Thus did John L. Lewis twice last week obey the instinct of years, refuse to violate that unionist taboo which forbids a union man to compromise himself even in the smallest way where a strike is concerned. In his larger relations with rival A. F. of L., however, last week Labor's Lewis smashed tradition in a big, ruthless...