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As the present academic year draws to a close, change in an important Professorship gives its closing a special meaning. Since 1926 Professor Bliss Perry has held the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship of English Literature. As editor and teacher, the passing years have found him well-liked in his success...
Hotel Universe, though written by Philip Barry and produced by the Theatre Guild, is certainly an artistic and probably a commercial failure. An elaborate inquiry into the frustrations of persons of unimportance, its action takes place entirely upon the terrace of a villa near Toulon. There is no intermission, a...
Alarmed at such defiance, the Radio Commission called on the Department of Justice. Its agents in Michigan were instructed to "arrest the proper persons"-meaning Governor Green-if the State should start to put up its radio station.
An example of Critic Orage's own criticism (of a passage by Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton): "Read one after the other in the ordinary way, they [the paradoxes] stun the mind like a series of shocks; no meaning can survive them. And considered sentence by sentence they scarcely repay...
*i.e. "A united Germany above home, party, creed, etc." The phrase does not mean, never did mean "Germany above every other nation." Wrote Author Ponsonby, M. P., in Falsehood in Wartime: "There must have been many people who knew sufficient German to understand the meaning of the phrase but no...