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...glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque show to a defiance of Washington. "City of Monuments." Muriel Rukeyser is "a Left Winger and a revolutionary," but her poetry contains no direct appeals to the proletariat and her symbols of revolt are imaginative. The world of which she writes is chaotic, bloody, violent, filled with crimes of perversity, such as are suggested by a recollection of Loeb & Leopold: how they removed his glasses and philosophically slit his throat. Man's conquest of nature, primarily his conquest of space, is symbolized by quotations from the notes of the Wright brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singing Youngsters | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve the bat industry. But it's all so chaotic and aimless. The Russians have a much better chance; they can be consistent and lambante nothing but nasty old capitalism. Hence their effort along the same lines, "The New Gulliver," is an infinitely better picture...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

...contrast to this pleasant and happy life out at Worcester, things have been a bit chaotic lately hero in Cambridge. The season started with a new coach, Dick Harlow, making a superhuman effort to rebuild Crimson football between and his product showed against Springfield that it hadn't been entirely unreceptive to his teachings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/12/1935 | See Source »

...From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games (see p. 21), the Dictator announced that Italy will expound before the League Council this week the troubled history of Italo-Ethiopian relations for the past 50 years "depicting Ethiopia as she is in her chaotic condition of retrograde slaveholding tribes with non-existent central power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Odor of Oil | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...sided first with Pompey, became neutral, chose Pompey again, again became neutral, got on the losing side just before it lost. By that time he had antagonized both camps. He remained prudently true to his Republican convictions while Caesar was in power, was completely hoodwinked by Octavian in the chaotic situation that followed Caesar's assassination. In a last burst of eloquence he denounced Anthony, then faced his murderers. The more Dr. Richards labors to make his career inspiring, the more inept Cicero appears. When he was audacious it was at the wrong time. When he was caustic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yes-&-No Man | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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