Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief in the spirit and the methods of Galileo, of Newton, of Faraday, and of the other great builders of this modern scientific age-this age of the understanding and the control of nature. . . . For while a starving man may, indeed, be supremely happy, it is certain that he cannot be happy very long...
...this year. On the crest of it, Jed Harris, youthful impresario, rides to glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...
...advantage of telephone conversation is the fact, that the ONE at the other end cannot see you. Half the time, much to the disgust of your family, you go to the telephone in kimono and cold cream. Disillusion would certainly be the fate of the ONE at the other end if he could see his darling with shining face, her hair done up in inartistic Western Electrics...
Prive and personal opinion cannot be forced to coincide with the opinions of others. Harvard men as individuals may be antipathetic toward the monument now determined. In a matter of this sort, however, external unison is a requisite for the efficacy of the project. Therefore, since there is to be a memorial and since that memorial is to be placed in the Yard all opposing exceptions dwindle. Nothing is so destructive as quibbling over a subject whose nature is as dignified as inartificial--and as intangible--as is this. There is something greater and finer than quarrels as to place...
...afraid he cannot give an unequivocal answer. Mr. Robinson has written a beautiful poem, the best he has published since "Lancelot": but it is not entirely successful. Granted his, method of attack, it is necessary that his characters should be vivid and distinct, their personalities clearly differentiated. Unfortunately they are not. It is, of course, exceedingly difficult to describe two people, both violently in love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very...