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...then and a ready sale among Boston mothers, and any other mothers or daughters, etc., planning to invite large sections of Harvard students. In fact if the advertisements already sent to Boston matrons are to be believed the publication of the "Register" scheduled for October, roughly corresponds to the Millennium...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...
...listen to the last millennium's most important music would take a month. To read the essential literature of the last ten centuries would require several years. Last week nearly 1,000 years of Europe's art was visible in a day at the Cleveland Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary Exhibition, celebrating the Great Lakes Exposition. Borrowed by suave, dapper, erudite Director William Mathewson Milliken in the astonishingly short time of five months, from U. S. museums and private collectors, from the Louvre in Paris and from half a dozen Italian collectors, Cleveland's paintings...
...theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything they get. The spirit of experimentation is vigorous and widespread. And what puts the golden cap of perfection on the whole situation is that the State pays all the bills...
...best of his ability and his conscience and expound it to his students as well as he can." The legislator who proposed that the majority of the taxpayers determine just what is truth, places much more faith in the electorate than it has so far merited. Until the millennium arrives it would seem advisable to let each citizen of the Commonwealth establish his own definition of truth for his private consumption...