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...organization is to be of permanent service is evident from its rapid growth and acquisition of a home in the Union. As was announced several weeks ago, the old assembly room has been fitted up in excellent style and will serve as a clubroom for the Federation. With a compact organization and its own headquarters, the Federation has the elements of strength and permanence, and that its work will be extensive and influential is certain...
Picked for Jezebel's heroine was an actress largely overlooked in Gone With the Wind's nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
More aggressive, wittier and compact is 42-year-old Lancelot Hogben (Mathematics for the Million), an English biologist who calls himself a "scientific humanist" and is a kind of English version of iconoclastic Thorstein Veblen. Writers and statesmen he attacks for their ignorance of science, scientists for their ignorance of social matters. In addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics...
...Volumes, compact of words, but unfulfilled...
...deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire and the transplanted elm. After scrutinizing cogitation the transplanted elm appears blatantly impossible, either in its own context or in relation to the young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence...