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...Kelly's improvements on the comic strip routine is to run two stories in each strip. While the characters are following one in Kelly's own brand of swamp talk, they act out another. The first provides the thread of a series from strip to strip, and the second gives a complete tale all in one strip...
...priest; it was all very quickly and formally done, while someone at a children's service muttered in another chapel. Then we shook hands and I went off to a salmon tea." Even so, he couldn't help feeling that "I had taken up the thread of life from very far back, from so far back as innocence...
Unhappily, the cheery peace of this literary sampler is broken by a scarlet thread that runs wild through it all. William Cowper was a madman. He spent every moment of his last 25 years under the delusion that God hated him personally. Worse yet, Cowper's God was irrevocably determined to betray him at every turn in this life, and to torture him eternally in the next. Under this ghastly sentence, Cowper wretchedly took up, as he said, "the arduous task of being merry by force." He found temporary oblivion in lighthearted verse and in thousands of eloquent, cheerful...
...figure commonly bandied about is $200 million. Actually, no one will know the real value of Hearst's estate until his executors have made an appraisal for purposes of federal inheritance taxes. To make it, they will first have to thread their way through his maze of personal holdings (ranches, mines, oil wells, real estate, art treasures) and interlocking corporations, discover how much has been encumbered by debt, how much previously sold...
...There is," wrote Smith, "one thread that shines through all the fabric of current criticism: discontent with the schools of education and the teachers' colleges ... [which] now completely dominate public education . . . The critics claim that under the aegis of these institutions . . . common standards of learning are being abandoned, the standards being adjusted to the supposed interests and abilities of the students; that discipline, in the sense of both control of conduct and the process of directed training, is frowned upon as coercive and damaging to the personalities of students. In short, the critics say that under the impact...