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...word in the margin here is undecipherable. Eiseman claims it is "yepl" but just below is a notation: "No, 'millennium'. Frederick Barbarossa" Other editors have thought it an epithet for the cuckoo
...their judgment. For the English company offers to have a background that is authentic in the matter of students as well as of quadrangles. The actors will be real students, and yet they are not obliged to wear the pictorial slicker or the loud sweater that speaks. The millennium is nearing when England's well known love of fair play has reached her film companies. One learns with regret that Oxford students do not anticipate with pleasure a romance whose consummation would come on the steps of the chancel. Little do they know how one great love was knitted...
...philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree to which he is conscious and confident of sound normality among the masses from which his clientele is drawn...
...every one "Good Night" with a cheery morning smile. Other chemicals-not to call them drugs-might be evolved for stimulating mental activity without robbing Peter to pay Paul, as do Cocaine, alcohol, etc. Thus, out of the test tube, a synthetic superman, "a short cut to the millennium...
With no idea of heralding or exhorting the millennium, he calls attention to the status and aims of a body of adults, five times as numerous as all registered U. S. college students, engaged more or less formally in educational study. He analyzes this body...