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...Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism in Wartime ? "The Germans eagerly quoted me to show that the moral case against them was a trumped-up one, which...
...Coney Island, N.Y., one Harry Mann went for a ride on a Giant Coaster. On the rear seat sat a male and female, lovingly. Curious about their activities, Mann drew a mirror from his pocket, stood up in his seat, tottered, fell under the rear wheels, was ground to death...
Drama is the revelation of the potentialities of every man. The theatre is a great mirror of life. All creative activities extend human consciousness, and enlarge human power. But there is this difference. A chemist or an engineer may remain ignorant in other departments of knowledge. The function of drama is to bring the infinite variety of the living world into convenient compass for observation. To increase knowledge of humanity is to enlarge humanity...
...Theatre Mirror of Life...
...Kara Khoto in the Gains desert was one of the expedition's objectives. The city, uninhabited now for some 400 years, is mentioned by Marco Polo as Edzina. The Fogg expedition made a map of the city and succeeded in bringing back from there some small frescos, a fine mirror of the Tang period, and several interesting fragments of broken pottery...