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Since the sole purpose of the Kentucky Derby is to answer the question which was disturbing Louisville last week, attempts to answer it by other means are preposterous as well as premature and probably in error. Nonetheless, last week a large portion of the U. S. press and public concentrated on doing so. Consensus of innumerable touts and tipsters who make their livelihood from just such vain speculations was that it was practically impossible for any horse at all to win the Derby. Pompoon's alleged fault was lack of stamina; his sire, Pompey, was a famed sprinter...
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...Bronson Alcott? Few U. S. memories are long enough to answer. Fifty years ago a name to conjure with, he is known now, if at all. as the father of Louisa May Alcott, best-selling author (Little Women, Little Men). It is Biographer Shepard's well-presented thesis that Bronson Alcott is one of America's almost-forgotten great men. An ably-written, authoritative book, Pedlar's Progress deserves every penny of its $5,000 prize (Little, Brown Centenary), will fit snugly on the same shelf with Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England...
Curious observers pressed closer to the four to investigate what so absorbed these mighty intellects. A flash in the sun, and a thud in the ground disclosed the answer.--mumblety pegl...
...more fundamental-in its own social living together. None of the mechanisms which integrate the machinery of public life can function this way. One institution breaks down today, another tomorrow, until complete historic collapse will overtake us." But Ortega will not admit that economic determinism (Marxism) supplies the right answer for Spain's condition. Marxism, which he calls "one of the great ideas of the 19th Century, ... is one of the great wheels in the mechanism of history, but it travels in gear with many other wheels. The whole machine is much more complex than this, so much more...