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...consent will not soon be retracted. Unlike its neighbors across the Channel, England's greatest revolutions have taken place in the quiet course of constitutional development. It is a testimony to the permanence and strength of the labor movement that it has sought and gained power by the traditional mode of election. And since it is conservative in its methods if not in its ideals, the alleged "socialistic" party should attract those liberal elements which have in recent years become diffused among the older organizations, thus gaining the strength necessary not only to retain office but to drive actual control...
...George Dandin, Molière's sophisticated trifle of the uncouth husband who was hoodwinked by his philandering, patrician wife, is revived prettily in a good English translation. But all its antic graces cannot hide the fact that it is a gilded potboiler. It is done in the mode of that simpering, formal period when Truth was nothing and an attitude everything...
...grandfather of the family governess. Furthermore, there is a count present who is exposed as a chef before the play is done. Fashion is fluffy with crinolines and sentiment. Many of the stock characters, and some of the lines, are still doing reliable service, barbered in the prevailing mode. But playwrights no longer luxuriate in soliloquies, nor hurl asides at the audience like bombs...
...report was, however, partly substantiated by evidence from Moscow, received by the British Foreign Office, which purported to prove the Cheka had attempted to "kidnap" the War Lord, presumably for "flirting with the monarchists and plotting to make himself a dictator a la mode under a puppet Tsar." It was not clear whether this report had any connection with his arrest, but the details of the attempted kidnapping...
...godliness" tantamount to a Christian mode of life? If so, then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...