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...Spectator is a four-page sheet of heavy, uncoated stock the size of a newspaper, printed in 5 wide columns. It carries no illustrations, thus far no advertising, sells for 10?. Its purpose: "... to offer a medium for the truly valuable and adventurous in thought." Its criteria: ''clarity, vigor, humor . . . real knowledge and a decided point of view." The idea was George Jean Nathan's. From his long experience with monthly magazines, notably Smart Set and American Mercury, he had found "that it is impossible to get enough good copy each month to fill. . . . [The editor...
...there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide Maillol's first medium was one that must have caused many an old smuggler to raise an eyebrow. He designed tapestries...
...course lecture, in spite of upstart rivals in the tutorial system and in the reading periods, remains the central medium of university instruction. It is, accordingly essential that everything be done to counteract the inherent tendency of mass lectures to degenerate into a dull substitute for student reading. One valuable pedagogical instrument of which too little use is made is the class discussion...
...medium he is requested by a banker to ask the late great John Pierpont Morgan what he thinks about the Moratorium. "Don't know anything about it," replies the shade of Mr. Morgan. "You better take the Berengaria." Mr. Carroll excites whoops of enjoyment from spectators aware of the city's political situation with a Jimmy Walker song ending: You can have your City Hall, I'll take A. C. Blumenthal...
...called upon often and not in vain. Mr. Weber vastly amuses his audience by prodigious feats of ventriloquism, then turns serious and leads a band of breadline tatterdemalions in a genuinely stirring ballad called "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Mr. Carroll is at various times a spiritual medium, Lynn Fontanne, James John Walker...