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Ambitious Weekly. The other peace-seeking periodical has given the Manhattan eyrie of the New Republic the expectant aura of a hospital delivery room-even though the birth is still months away. But the prospect is more exciting to Editor Michael Whitney Straight (rhymes with bait) than the current affairs of the New Republic, his family's journal of opinion...
Often only those people who have been personally devoted to a leader will undertake to write his or her biography. Certainly Margaret Cole, who worked with Beatrice Webb in the Fabian Society, is too closely connected with the British Socialist movement to maintain even an aura of scholarly objectivity. The author seems more concerned with justifying each particular action of her idol than with evaluating her various campaigns in the light of her announced objectives. This, plus a rather careless style, makes "Beatrice Webb" more of an expanded pamphlet than a work of research, but Mrs. Cole's observations...
...their eyes never shifted from the main chance. Long before U.S. merchants went in for advertising stunts, Mitsui stores gave away paper umbrellas bearing the three-barred family crest and news of bargains. Their Tokyo store had a fuddy-duddy spaciousness, a time-ignoring air and an aura of genteel prosperity not unlike John Wanamaker's in Philadelphia...
...poetry, the modern flourishes (card playing, automobiles) and modern dress. They gave a mild fillip to a classic story, but they did not make for an effective play. This Antigone, barring its one big clash between despot and defier, was flat, fumbly theater. This Antigone, shorn of her Resistance aura, was unmoving and unreal. And in a modernish setting, the burial issue on which the plot hinges seemed outlandishly bizarre...
...himself as inscrutable. In his last year he half-boasted: "You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history." He left a mixed enough legacy: "divine revelations" on subjects ranging from the Church of God to the price of stocks; a dank aura of scandal; a church which, a century after his death, has a million members...