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...harassed by economic burdens, however, the danger of a coup d'etat is always present. These rumors should remind the Entente of the peril of keeping their former foe dismantled. For howevermuch a recuperated Germany might be a menace, a Germany modelled on the virulently national Fascist pattern would be even more formidable...
Nirvana. John Howard Lawson was the author of Processional, perhaps the most violently discussed production of the Theatre Guild last season. His new one was therefore the more anticipated and the more discredited when it failed to measure up. It holds to the puzzling pattern of expressionism, and does not boast a plot. The general woes of this current world are chaotically included, with a little suicide and much sex. Mr. Lawson is evidently troubled with the way things are going. Perhaps he is disturbed because it has not been given to him (or anyone) to understand. Spectators...
...educational venture of any sort, success must be read in great part in terms of the amount of individual and collective rebellion which it inspires. The attitude of its administrators must recognize that the best patterns are those which are most fragile. Mr. Bertrand Russell has pointed out somewhere that the State of New York until very recently held it to be a criminal misdemeanor to teach communism while Soviet Russia had enacted laws to require the teaching of communism. Either the state of New York or Soviet Russia was wrong about communism, and they were both wrong about education...
...pattern for these Catholic retreats is Mount Manresa, on Staten Island. For years this lay-monastery has provided spiritual haven for the harassed souls of business men. But already a Philadelphia institution, the Men of Malvern, has perhaps surpassed it in favor. The Philadelphians have consecrated to spiritual re-creation 100 acres just outside the city. They have improved a choice suburban landscape with a magnificent chapel, a large comfortable retreat house. The genius of inauguration was supplied by Father Terence Shealy, first director of retreats...
...ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that is the reason that I might write a grotesque, but not perfect story of their deeds...