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...enough about social problems, to the fact that there are many people in the United States who are neither bourgeois nor proletarian and thereby confuse the Communist issue, to the fact that people cannot spend much money during a depression and are forced to resort to the older and simpler pleasures of the race, and to the final fact that there is in all this much material for thought. The symposium, it should be added, leaves the material facile verbiage. Mr. Hale, alone of the three ventures into the inner recesses of the young intellectuals' cannery, and passes some crumbs...
...Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor, Governor and President, his motives were never sufficiently trusted by The People ("Who Think"). Perhaps, eloquent though he became on the stump, he was too mental for them, too synthetic. It was a simpler, earthier politician than T. R. who drove Hearst out of politics-Al Smith, with the astutely simple declaration. "He's no Democrat." On his Enchanted Hill with his seventies upon him, it is a question whether Hearst is still unreconciled to age. He has never let his newspapers keep...
...female manager, goes off holidaying in a Swiss village. There, just as his identity is about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade...
...good beer were readily obtainable we would, I think, gradually get away from the high tension at which boys of today are living and return to the simpler and easier social relaxation that, in the past, was associated with college life."-Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, dean of Yale College...
Last week, with Beer at their gates, U. S. college authorities and students were busily concerned with planning and regulating "simpler and easier social relaxation...