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...same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream." Surprisingly, he finds himself much more like Jonathan Swift, says "my early, profound and lifelong admiration for Swift appears again and again in this collection, and it is particularly evident in a predisposition to make the stories reflect upon contemporary political and social discussions." But old Author Wells is rationalizing long after the fact of young Author Wells. He now calls The Island of Dr. Moreau "an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous...
...rhythm and mass. And there is a often fine organic unity which shows in a plastic sense, surpassing that of most civilized peoples. This is attributable to the wooden medium which of its nature gives a flexibility lacking in stone. The surfaces in particular are of unusual quality and reflect the laborious workmanship involved in the creation...
...same magnanimous Republicans must have enjoyed a nice quiet laugh all to themselves at the expense of the naughty boys of the opposition whose "welcome dear teacher" rang somewhat false after their participation in the nasty little pranks which were engineered during his absence. Some of the apostates may reflect perhaps that the President would have preferred the triumph of his bonus veto and the defeat of the Philippine oil tax bill to the Marine Band and the welcoming delegation as an expression of Congressional good feeling...
...first, have apologized for the behavior of the rest of the Press. Julius David Stern, publisher of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Record printed a front page box headlined "O. K., MR. PRESIDENT!" The Milwaukee Journal: "President Roosevelt has accepted the newspaper code with certain remarks which reflect the bad taste left in his mouth after months and months of unjustifiable delay. The delay and the haggling for advantages were carried on under the camouflage of a valiant fight for 'freedom of the press...
...little uncomfortable to reflect that we do not know the Administration's answer to any of these questions. We have only hints, fragmentary, and contradicting suggestions of the answer which the Administration will finally give to each of them. And we are not assisted in our task by reference to the motivating political philosophy of Mr. Roosevelt. So far as that has been disclosed to us, it is a little of Mr. John Dewey's debauched pragmatism, a little Jeffersonian democracy, a little talk of the integrated state which the suspicious might call Fascism, and a dash of Tammany Martini...