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...mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected in such a book as this. Other nameless ones who have never had the misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord Fauntleroy (a comic story...
...their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...
...Connecticut Yankee has taken a back seat. A mere Alsatian, whom Mark Twain would have classified among the "furriners", has invented a device destined to transform the entire academic world. The radio, which has brought upheaval and strike to the musical world, the "smiling voice" and unctuous "Goodnight" to churchly spheres, has already found legitimate application in the extension of university courses. Grandma and Grandpa Applebloom have been lapping up Professor Whosis' course on the philosophy of transmigration and the psychology of the billboard. Streams of erudition have been poured forth upon the desert...
...successful chain of grocery stores. To him, apparently, the newspaper differs in no essential respect from a can of peas in which the editors, writers and reporters are of as little significance as the individual pea in the can. . . . This . . . destroys individual initiative and enthusiasm and tends to transform his editorial writers into hired men who, within the narrow limits assigned to them and the still narrower limits inspired by their fear of making a mistake, pound out expressions of what they believe he wants. ... In such an atmosphere . . . the profession of journalism reaches the vanishing point...
...Ancient Mariner without making it any less a tribute to "dat old Davil sea." Following the simple process of eliminating a few lines from the poem, he does not add a single phrase of his own except in the stage directions which-with the help of some lights-transform the poem into a drama. Following these directions, the Mariner mouths his anguished story at the Wedding Guest he has stopped; while the ghosts of the crew that died for his misdeed act as a muffled, mummified chorus...