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...expert that it will be impossible for a criminal to escape detection, and when the law is so watchful that it will bring all criminals to punishment--then there will be no more need for murder and detective stories. And then, perhaps, the world will be so perfect that it will no longer want to read them...
...carried too far there are these two inevitable tendencies: (1) that the students are so absorbed in following the trails of the professors, they hardly have any time left for their creative impulse to operate. By formulating this habit, they will undoubtedly in the course of time become perfect phonographic records, and will make no noise unless they are pinned; (2) or they get so bored with the endless requirements, that they decide not to suffer any discipline. Eventually they may spoil their whole life because of this. Good students will follow the first course; self-conceited students usually prefer...
...reason!" In contrast with the rest of the program, the work seemed somewhat dry and uninteresting. True, the solo voice is well blended in the chorus, but one wondered whether the responsibility for that lay most with Brahms or with Mme. Homer, who singing without rehearsal, gave a nearly perfect performance...
...Pygmalion", the shrewd intellect of Shaw is at its clearest and wittiest. He divides the actual from the supposed or imagined with a two-edged sword. He creates true characters, pleasantly individualized. As in all his best plays, so in "Pygmalion" the dramatic technique is perfect. No machinery creaks, no awkward comings in or goings out mar the uproarious comedy of the five acts. One is haunted by the feeling that taken seriously, Mr. Shaw may turn out to be a serious man, and his plays truer than people think. Alfred Dolittle, as an impersonation of "undeserving poverty", which...
...their own 44-yard line, they mixed a strong running attack with an overhead game which netted 43 yards. But in three desperate plunges the Crimson defence allowed Jordan only eight yards, and on the fourth down O'Hearn, standing on the 21-yard line, drop-kicked a perfect goal, making the score Harvard seven, Yale three...