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What a mess this world is in! And with what delight Voltaire and Dean Swift would report its befuddlement! We are in such a state of jitters that our religious leaders are falling for Buchmanism, our industrial, financial and economic leaders solemnly discussing "Technocracy," and our political leaders quarreling about decimal points in beer...
...gongs as bright as gold-pieces and serpentine horns made the music for Shankar to dance to. It was delicate, highly refined music for the most part which, with its single thread of melody, might have sounded monotonous to Occidental ears but for the drummers tapping and slapping a swift, intricate counterpoint, and for Shankar...
...horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls of big, soft gold pieces stamped with his hard, sharp profile...
...National has been the only important professional football league in the U. S. since the collapse of C. C. Pyle's American League in 1927. The first thing that spectators accustomed to college football notice about professional games is an immense, swift precision which makes the game compare to college games as college games compare to the higgledy-piggledy contests of gangling schoolboys. Professionals are almost always huge (an exception is Boston Braves' 167-lb. Center Tony Siano) but they do not lumber awkwardly like most huge college players. They must be light-footed, quick as eels, dextrous...
After their first raptures the critics acted a little shamefaced and attempted to withdraw some of the praises they had strewn in the hot haste of their first love. They discovered that there was nothing original here, only six or seven glittering stars perfectly cast, good lines, and a swift-moving plot, worked up with great care. But there is no denying that seldom has New York seen such a complete and balanced piece of drama...