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...that of finding, a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook...
...Largo has one grave weakness. Through the thinnest possible mask of melodrama, it is trying to speak to everyone in the postwar world who is disheartened; to show how a brave and intelligent man can and must regain reasons for living and for fighting. In this admirable attempt, it succeeds only part way. It may be that gangsters simply cannot be made to symbolize enough...
...Manhood Regained. Instead of smelling out his mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife...
According to Sandy Calhoun, who held a respectable one-goal handicap from the American Polo Association before the war as a result of his play at Manila, these practice facilities are all that Harvard needs to regain its former prominent position among Eastern college polo teams...
...They've showed they can score, and they have improved with each game. One of these days they may regain prewar form." Springfield won the League on one occasion years ago and occasionally produces All-Americans...