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Gloomed he: "The world is in such a chaotic state and conditions change so rapidly that it is impossible to formulate plans with confidence that they can be carried out. . . . Penalties in one country are followed by retaliation in others and we are really engaged in a commercial...
...absorbed the confusion and hysteria of the Newsreels, they are likely to feel that they have received a vivid cross-section report on some U. S. history in a manner neither novelists nor historians supply. They may question whether ordinary private life during that period was as confused and chaotic as Dos Passos represents it, whether he has not overshot his mark in bringing so many of his characters to violent ends, so many of their hopes to tragic frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning...
...novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths and by conventional methods, they had few adventures, were interested...
...Morrow ($2.50). Reports the trials of a Carolina gentleman-writer and mill-owner who, already harassed by the task of bringing up three children in the absence of a philandering wife, becomes involved in a local labor war. Crammed with action and sexual intrigue, saturated with heavy sentiment, this chaotic melodrama reveals a disturbing picture of life in the South...
This measure has done much to order the chaotic elements in educational teaching. However, it may legitimately be hoped that this is but the first of a series of measures of improvement. Harvard, as a school for teachers, is outshone by a number of other universities, notably Columbia, particularly in theoretical education, and consistent effort and continual reforms must be applied before the University is truly eminent in the schooling of fully-rounded teachers...