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Hopes of a Crimson rugby victory in California this week rose considerably on Saturday as the home side trounced the Barbarian Rugby Club of Montreal by a 16-3 score in the season's opener...
...does the play's second half bring any tragic reversal. Hubris, to the last, goes unpunished; only Death defeats the conqueror, and it by thrombosis, not spears or thunderbolts. Before that, the insatiable barbarian whose only principle is "the argument of arms" has created a pageant of carnage and torture. Caged royal captives bash out their brains; men hanged in chains are pierced by arrows: conquered kings must draw their conqueror...
...time something which was once the possession of all educated men has shrunk to being the technical accomplishment of a few specialists . . . "To Gibbon the literary change from Virgil to Beowulf . . . would have seemed greater than it can to us. We can now see quite clearly that these barbarian poems were not really a novelty comparable to, say. The Waste Land ... I do not think that any previous age has produced work which was, in its own time, as shatteringly and bewilderingly new as that of the Cubists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists and Picasso has been in ours...
...backs. As the learned Germans studied these unlovely things, they began to realize with growing excitement that they had probably stumbled on the molds used by Phidias nearly 2,400 years ago for shaping the great statue. Discarded outside the workshop, they had no interest for Greece's barbarian conquerors, so they survived while the statue itself was destroyed for the sake of its precious materials...
...Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Bull, was bypassed and ignored and how that very special group of experts on world problems and everything size decided they were the men to settle the fate of mankind for all time to come. They went out to Yalta and greeted the Barbarian and talked about democracy and told him that they could make a deal at the expense of various other parties who were not present. They betrayed our Allies and carved up the map of Europe in total disregard of the desires of the populations involved and then came home to inform...