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...alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere. Graduates and alumni (they are not identical) storm and sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss of these checks is more serious than the loss...
Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere...
...press as an aid to their digestion. Reporters, the emissaries hired by editors to keep them accurately informed, put upon them out of carelessness, laziness and pure imagination. Picture agencies furnish them with false photographs (TIME, Apr. 20, LETTERS). News services lie to them from afar, out of reach of their investigation. And press agents are paid to deceive them...
...different order is the grand manner of Mr. Curtis. He has ransacked the ends of the world to fill the Post with daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse...
...trial began, Radoslavoff interested from afar. For one year the trial dragged on, at the end of which the Judges decided that as the Ministers were charged with wronging the people, the people ought to decide on the guilt of the accused. The people found them guilty and they were condemned last year to imprisonment for life with hard labor. Radoslavoff, in Berlin, called it laughable; the unfortunate eleven condemned ex-Ministers (one died in prison, one was still in Berlin) saw nothing funny in the situation...