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...four years of leisure provided us by a college education should be spent fruitfully. We ought not fritter away our late adolescence and early adulthood, when our romantic sensibilities are acutest, in the tedium and drudgery of practical politics—whether manning activist brigades or scribbling position papers. We should be enjoying each other’s company without trying to win votes for a future election. We should be playing sports while we still have the time and energy unavailable in the future. We should be reading, writing, and thinking about the good life?...
...Zhang made his reputation as a cinematographer. And in his early films as a director, cinema became the acutest form of rapture. These movies were tales of perfidy played out in lush tones and textures; the camera and color not only told the story, they were the story...
Died. George Edward Moore, 84, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, author (Philosophical Studies, Principia Ethica), whose neorealistic philosophy influenced Bertrand Russell; in Cambridge. One historian of philosophy called him the "greatest, acutest, and most skillful questioner of modern philosophy...
What this means, most of the French union workers know. Last week, where secret strike votes were held, the rank & file voted against striking. In the northern coal fields, where 200,000 miners were out at the time of France's acutest need for coal, some thousands of men shouldered their way past Communist pickets and resumed their work...
...Swinburne, through the Lawrences, Hardy, Campbell to Rupert Brooke, A. E. Housman, George Meredith, and many others. Of these men he gives a view not often shown, one of intimate association, if perhaps only for a short time. But always Squire comes away with the fruits of the acutest interpretation of the character of the man, and he transmits these into his work...