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...pagan tendencies in present-day life afflict all open and attentive eyes. For many people, life is specifically and paganly given over only to pleasure, to the quest after pleasure and to amusement that is specifically and paganly immodest, with an immodesty that often exceeds that of ancient pagan life, inasmuch as it is addicted to what is termed, with a horrible word and horrible blasphemy, the practice and cult of nudity. In ancient times nudity existed only in art and could not be said to exist in life, neither in Rome nor Greece, and that is saying very much...
Cleveland as a letter-writer was this side of dull, but he was impressive. Many a reader of this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...
...whole mass of interlaced Repara tions and War debts is the most formidable hindrance to recovery from the eco nomic evils which now afflict the world. If the sponge is to be used at all it must wipe all away. There must be no one-sided repudiation...
...some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial, but salient in the plot, is the only thing in the picture that is silly. The simple expedient of altering the tag of the opera-singer to "Swedish Contralto" would have removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that the bell-like head-tones heard issuing from a ballroom could not possibly be produced by Garbo's deep voice. It is a voice fascinating for its monotony which, though natural to Garbo, seems deliberately assumed to sustain the intense mood of the story...
...peculiar conditions in American colleges. We admitted that the Quad Plan, at the present time, stood in our eyes rather as a symbol of social progress than as a ready working system which could be applied tomorrow and could be trusted to uproot all the social ills that afflict this university, or any other. We did not attempt to deceive ourselves; we were theorists. But at the same time we were convinced that these theories were by no means empty...