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...18th Amendment was ratified by State legislatures and not by the People themselves it was invalid. Old though the broad contention is that the People (i. e. conventions) should have ratified the 18th Amendment rather than the States (i. e. legislatures), Judge Clark's decision was no close-knit legal argument along this familiar line. Discursively he began: "The traditional method of adopting amendments to the U. S. Constitution is challenged. . . . Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country...
...that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would have been almost impossible to dramatize), Mr. Stallings has given his play a hurried, ragged, not always...
...saved from becoming the pampered little mammet that she appeared during her last weeks with Mrs. Monnerie. "The World", says Miss M., "wields a sharp pin and is pitiless to bubbles". The story is a miracle in execution--thoroughly Greek in its symmetry and close-knit restraint. The texture of it is like carefully and beautifully wrought music. The economy of art revealed on every page is amazing. No incident, no detail, however trivial it may seem, but serves its purpose and recurs, like a theme in music, to startle one with recollected beauty. It has an inevitable quality...
...outsider it seems unfortunate that such a radical course should be necessary. The experience of American universities has been that clubs are inevitable, that the natural tendency of individuals is to consolidate into small, close-knit groups. When the nature of these groups destroys the possibility of fellowship, they should be modified, but to end their existence entirely opposes the dictates of normal human instincts If possible, it seems far healthier that the small club groups should continue to exist side by side with the broader opportunities for common fellowship...