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...peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs alone. "Whether they [Swiss correspondents in Germany] continue to peep through keyholes and burrow in dirty political washing, they may be left to their fate. Their business, however, must show a sinking tendency in proportion to the realization by their lonesome readers in Germany of how little political importance attaches to Swiss opinion, and then these Swiss papers will have to return to their old profession, which is to entertain the hotel servants and shepherds and peasants of their native mountain pastures." Many things grow in a dictatorship but one which does...
...character of the girl is will described. Mr. Ferris' "Attis" is a more ambitious piece of work, concerning the relation between an artist and the conventionality of a Southern town. So described, the theme sounds conventional, but this story is not conventional at all. Mr. Ferris puts his reader rapidly into the middle of the action, almost uncomfortably so, for his artist is such a strange individual that we ought to be more carefully prepared for him than we are. There is something hectic about the atmosphere we find ourselves in, and we get uneasy. But this is an impressive...
...with "most of the best." Fine indeed are the instruments of Moller (in West Point Cadet Chapel, Manhattan's Temple Beth El) and Austin (in the elder J. P. Morgan's St. George's Church and the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan). But let no reader regard that as a roll call of all able organ-builders.-ED. Nurses' Hours Sirs: Mention of nurses' efforts to secure an 8-hour day (TIME, May 7, Medicine) would have been more accurate if it had distinguished between the special-duty nurse (largest group in the profession...
...perpetual threat of losing their visas, and therefore their jobs. . . . The result is that news from Russia is a joke." The news Author Muggeridge retails (especially of the foreign hangers-on, cranks, visitors, converts) is also a joke, boisterously but bitterly told. Some of his wilder scenes remind the reader of Evelyn Waugh...
...Aiken's prose is simple, lucid, and straightforward. His choice of titles highly imaginative, and, if the test of a short story is an indelible imprint left on the mind of the reader, "Thistledown," "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," and Mr. Arcularis" will attain immortality as far as this writer is concerned...