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...realities of the affair lie in a realm of feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware, which the wisest doctor and the most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads...
...World Court has a distinct relation to the problem of peace, as I view it. Do not understand me to say that it has ever prevented a war, or that it ever will. That I do not know. I do not see how anyone can say, one way or another. It is perfectly true, as Mr. Borchard suggested, that the usual questions which the World Court may handle are not likely to be those which may lead to war. In the main, they will be legal questions about which nations will disagree, which may even contribute to friction, but which...
...less resounding measures of another critic, this time anonymous--who writes on the same subject in the current "New Republic" are a welcome change. He too is a Bostonian, yet he does not betray his old place. Instead he tries to understand and to judge wisely. "Boston", he says, "is like Harvard College twenty years from now. It is living on a reputation that is gone." And though Harvard College in twenty years will without doubt be far from such decadence, the undergraduate who has studied Boston at all can catch his meaning. Boston is in a sense "put away...
...many the play will be an adventure in the worried field of the inexplicable. Most minds will not understand and will therefore condemn it. Almost any fine forward-looking endeavor in the arts runs this maddening risk. For the rest the play will be a memorable experience...
...Menelaus once remarked: "The only thing about her I understand, is her looks, and I don't understand how they last so well...