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...large hordes of students, immediately after graduation, either to Oxford or Cambridge, for the purpose of acquiring an extra coat of varnish whereby to dazzle the yokels back in the sticks, has resulted, it seems to me, in a most deplorable state of mind. We are given generally to understand, these days, that neither Princeton or any other American university can really educate a man--let alone cultivate him. The American university can, at best, merely instruct him in his A B C's. It remains for Oxford or Cambridge really to civilize the brute...
...arises from the consciousness that the completion of the plan is being forced with extraordinary haste. Certainly the statement that all the houses will be ready for occupancy by a year from next September falls as a surprise upon the ears of those who last Spring were given to understand that the plan would come slowly enough so that no man would be forced to live in a House who does not want to. A scant two years is hardly enough to win everyone involved over to a new scheme however sound or attractive, and when one deals with such...
...surprising," asked Earl Beatty in seadog peroration, "that there is apprehension among those who have given thought to this vital question, and that there should be dismay among those who cannot understand how parity in cruisers can be arrived at unless it is to be a parity having regard to the commitments and obligations of each nation? . . . There is no nation, whose naval commitments and obligations are so great and so complicated as the British Empire...
...immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The poetry, of course, is in the music rather than the anecdote. This poetry is lost, but the silent Meistersinger moves with a light-footedness impossible in grand opera. Clearly these capable German actors like their. material and understand it. They play the old roles slyly, fast and broadly -the whimsical Hans Sachs, the vicious Beckmesser, the hesitating Pogner. Good shots: the fracas outside Hans Sachs' shop; Beckmesser appearing before the Grand Council without his toupee...
...months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...