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...facts to make his case more, plausible, thereby losing what over strength there may be in his argument. In "The Liberation of American Literature" he makes a rapid survey of literary endeavor in this country before the twentieth century, and with few exceptions brands it all as bourgeois and "un-American." It does not occur to him that, even if this, were true, the middle-class is after all sufficiently numerous to deserve literary expression, and the Unites States of the eighteenth and nineteenth countries was not "American," as he demands that term be used...
Speaker Garner last week was un-muzzled long enough to speak in his own defense. His first campaign speech was delivered over a nationwide radio hook-up from Manhattan. Informal, aggressive, he demonstrated what his 30 years in the House had taught him about political debate...
...imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...
...class cars of delegates to the 59th Annual Congress of the Conservative Party. Brass bands boomed "God Save the King." In hurried fashion the Party (which holds 471 seats out of the 615 in the House of Commons) drafted a policy which it hopes to put through before the un-national character of the so-called National Government becomes too glaringly apparent and leads to a General Election...
...long as the primary ideal of the undergraduates remains un-educational the University cannot expect to produce a greater number of educated men, but there is in existence a system which if it were carried to its logical conclusion might be truly educational. Were the tutorial system for honors candidates designed to inspire men to penetrate beneath the level of so-called cultural knowledge into the realm of experience and wisdom by means of a thorough study and understanding of some philosophy embodied in a civilization whether past or present, then the ideal might be realized. A group of students...