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Declared Governor Davis: "It is no time for mere eloquent speeches, for meaningless praise. Political phrasemaking and campaign catchwords must now yield to sound statesmanship. . . . For 30 years politics, not economics, have held the public attention. In our present critical condition economics must dominate politics. . . . Today our neighboring competitors have advanced so far beyond us in economic development that a number of years must pass before we can hope to equal them...
...never says anything that has not been said many times before. The work of Professor Read studies the subject from a new angle, but in the final analysis, his study has magnified one small aspect of Wordswroth's life so far beyond its correct proportion that his conclusions are meaningless. It is not so important to dissect. Wordsworth under the eyes of modern psychology as it is to attempt a tolerant and cogent understanding of his poetry. As a great poet unfortunately out of vogue. Wordsworth does not need a historian or a psychiatrist, but a great critic, a literary...
...Tune: "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Theme: doppel-rohrgcdeckt, the name of the organ-stop that produces a flute effect. Gedickef is meaningless, inserted to jingle. * Enlarged to book form: THE PIPE ORGAN PUMPER * Greenberg, New York, 70pp...
Revived last week in Manhattan was the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...
Harvard ought surely to follow Yale and Princeton in cancelling the meaningless distinction between its A.B. and S.B. degrees by making the arts degree dependent on the field of concentration rather than on knowledge of the ancient languages. Such a change need not imply a denial by the University of the value of studying the classics. It would blot out the stigma of official favoritism which, by arousing an instinctive antagonism, has probably hindered rather than promoted a true appreciation of ancient literature and culture...