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...speech he made, last summer, at the University of Michigan : "I dislike to speak of education, religion and politics as if they were three distinct fields. They are, or should be, an indivisible unity. . . . The professor, the parson and the politician are at work on the same job . . . the achievement of 'the good life' for the citizen and for the Nation...
...Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover-"The older economists taught the essential influences of 'wish,' 'want' and 'desire' as motive forces in economic progress. You have taken over the job of creating desire. You have still another job-creating goodwill in order to make desire stand hitched...
...better man to teach than the one who contributes countless ingenious notes to learned publications, if he devotes his efforts to the undergraduates, under the departmental system as it now exists, he cannot be advanced until some other university recognizes his strength and offers him assurance of a permanent job. There are, to be sure, a few exceptions in which Yale has acted in time to save her teachers. We must surmount this obstacle...
...supplying me with two original jokes against Scotsmen every day of the week. He did it, and that is the reason why the Labor Government was so successful." At that moment, an Englishman, who somehow or other had lost his bearings, remarked: "It must have been a lugubrious job." (Loud laughter...
...simple and perfectly synchronized whole. The settings, done by Mr. Dos Passos himself, are brilliantly successful. As concerns the acting, there are many good performances, and a few extremely bad ones--but this is overshadowed by the imaginative power with which the director has conceived and executed his job. There are few, if any, directors in this country capable of handling such a task in such...