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...novel is semiautobiographical, as its publishers hint darkly, then one can understand the author's readiness to be as garrulous in recalling his wounds of the spirit as an old soldier describing the carnage at Appomattox. That the book is carefully written?and perhaps for that reason especially appreciated by Britons, now in rebellion against the loose writing of the day-there is no doubt. But there is the feeling of words too long sought, too painstakingly chosen. For example a stream "wimples...
Horace did not look up. Annoyed, the millionaire raised his voice: "I understand you are lending money to my son ... I wish you to know that if you expect me to be responsible for it you are mistaken. I will not pay one cent...
...work of the fund in combatting race I prejudice is undoubtedly praiseworthy as far it goes. Why an international student organization such as this professes to be should not carry on with equal vigor a war against religious prejudice, it is difficult to understand...
...Before one can understand the Mexican situation one must face the problems of Mexico" Frank, Tannenbaum, economist, educator, and prison expert, told a Crimson reporter yesterday. Mr. Tannenbaem had been in Mexico for over a year and returns to lecture on the problems of Mexico with the endorsement of that country's council general. "And before one can understand the relationship between Mexico and Nicaragua one had to understand that all the problems of Mexico are the problems of both Central and south America...
...Mexico to study conditions there. There are young men are women there from Peru and Argentina. They seek inspiration. In studying the problems of Mexico they are facing their own problems, problems of religion, race, land distribution. Mexico's influence in Latin America is great because the people there understand what she is doing. Her influence in Central and South America will be what the influence of the French Revolution, was to contemporary Europe...