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...Goodbye to Western Culture" is delightful reading, however one may carp at the author's motive in writing it. Its pages bristle with indignation at Miss Mayo's "Mother India." And if we smile at the idea of Mr. Douglas rushing forward, eyes aflame, to defend the East, we cannot help laughing aloud at many of his clever pokes in the less salubrious corners of that "frowsy and fidgetty little hole called Europe." For though his main thesis may be a defense of India, his dislike of all that is smug in Europe does not have to be read between...
...Hauling up load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish are toughest...
...endeavored to calm apprehensions, pointed out that after floating 75 miles, 3,500 gal. of carbolic acid would purify rather than pollute the Vistula. But housewives were unconvinced, for down the Czarna, down the Pilika, down the Vistula floated thousands of dead fish: pickled pike, acid burnt bream, carbolated carp. Polish soldiers, ever fearful of water as a beverage, demanded larger wine rations...
...otherwise that his curiosity, permanently caught, culminated in his study of Grant. In between time, however, he was advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show him up"; had merely tried to humanize him. Of Grant he will no doubt say the same...
...having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances, but in the final reckoning they pale like small talk before the fact that operatic puppets are given life, that people who had hitherto small patience with "grand" opera go to Jeritza, pay top prices, listen and watch intently and go again...