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...true that much of his manifold works seem to spring from a brain clouded by the vapors of an addled egg or weighted with the soddeness of haggis, but there are flashing moments which can only be accounted for by the finest, most digestable port. True these vibrant moments when they happen to be historical as well are seldom correct, but who really cares. It is just as pleasant to dwell upon the imagined death of Danton as it is to come to grips with the real fashion in which he fled this vale of tears. It is a particularly...
...Vibrant though it is with the overtones of the Harkness Hoot's unrelenting radicalism, R. S. Child's "Portrait of Undergraduate Yale" in the Nation is nevertheless a careful and well-balanced analysis. The article is specially interesting for its candid picture of the relations between academic and non-intellectual activities...
Advertisers determine most radio careers. Charles F. Gannon of Erwin, Wasey & Co. (agents for Reynolds) "discovered" Alice Joy at a party this autumn, when he was in the midst of concocting the Prince Albert program. Quick to appreciate the husky, vibrant quality which makes some mediocre voices broadcast better than finer, better trained ones, Advertiser Gannon was just as quick to sell his find to Prince Albert for $3,000 a week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over...
...Pope Pius XI traced the 20,000 words of Quadragesima Anno, his encyclical on Capital & Labor, issued last week in Vatican City. Fortnight ago a vague 2,000-word official summary was released (TIME, May 25). The actual words of His Holiness last week were fresh and vibrant, precise and bold. Most remarkable were those passages in which the Supreme Pontiff pronounced squarely upon three basic elements in the life of almost every human being: the corporation, the factory, the machine...
...Union ("The United States of Europe") of which he is President. When the Commission met next day, the entrance of Chairman Briand was received by the representatives of 27 nations in dead silence. At this Uncle Arthur boiled over. Jumping up, he delivered extempore a Scotch tribute, restrained but vibrant with suppressed intensity: "M. Briand, in my humble judgment, symbolizes in his ideals, in his spirit, in his years of devoted and capable service, all that is best in connection with the League-and when we say that in these days, it means all that is best for the peace...