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...primitive race Nature presents a chactic activity that at first glance is terrifying and bewilderingly disjointed. In both cases adolescence brings a certain sophistication in regard to this chaos and at the same time a desire to introduce order. A vague suspicion is born that perhaps after all a clearer perspective will make possible a deduction of true values that remain untouched by the whirling flux of events. The child has become a philosopher. And it may be said that the hall mark of civilization has always been its ability to contribute to the ever widening stream of philosophical thought...
...Bulgarian and Turkish students have a far clearer idea of what they want in college and the sort of an education they need than students of the same age in the United States," said Mr. F. H. Black, Hon. '15, when interviewed yesterday. Mr. Black is the newly elected president of the American Colleges in Bulgaria which are to be erected near Sofia at a cost of $500,000 next autumn...
Personally I wish that TIME were printed with clearer type on unglazed paper like the World's Work, and that it had a map with each number showing the places mentioned therein...
...half-thoughts and the stinging lash of passion, running in and out of obscurity, now fading into drifting leaves. Some of them, including the major piece, "Priapus and the Pool," suffer grievously from obscurity. In such the supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with her prey) ; The vampire in Woman, "Electra" and the brave "Teteléstai": I am no King, have laid...
...Many a current slang phrase or expression is the creation of a dizzy brain overheard and remembered by a clearer head. The streets of New York between midnight and dawn, when the inebriates come sailing home, are productive fields for the professional wise cracker," answered Mr. Catlett when asked about the source of his humorous sayings...