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Unruffled by blasts from Buenos Aires' Luna Park and the University of Chicago's Midway, unshaken by waverings and defections in the ranks of his own followers. John Dewey at 84 stands rock-firm in his conviction that only through scientific inquiry can man become educated and thus free...
...Vermont's rock-ribbed Republicans, it was just another example of New Deal bungling. To the War Food Administration the Great American Egg Problem was not the least bit funny...
Intensely distrustful of emotionalism and romancing, Hopkins called Swin burne's verses about children "blethery bathos"; and when William Butler Yeats wrote an allegory about a man and a sphinx conversing on a rock in the sea, Hopkins asked coldly: "How did they get there? What did they...
...swept past Mont-Saint-Michel last week, but some enraptured U.S. troops stopped to stare. A half century ago another U.S. visitor, Henry Adams, saw the same towering, church-crowned rock in the sea off Avranches, felt the same compulsion. Wrote he in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...
...church stands high on the summit of this granite rock, and on its west front is the platform, to which the tourist ought first to climb. From the edge of the platform, the eye plunges down, two hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the wider ocean, as the tides recede or advance, under an infinite sky, over a restless...