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...week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute staff, reported to a meeting of bacteriologists, pathologists and immunologists in Manhattan that plants which recover from mosaic disease are thenceforth immune just as are humans who recover from smallpox, that cuttings from such recovered plants, when grafted to other plants convey the immunity to their hosts...
What the uproar will seem like to those who have never come within the circle I do not know. To convey to them the quality of the devotion which his pupils feel is like trying to explain to one who never heard him the spell which Garrick cast upon his audience. For the Copey of his pupils is not to be found in works of art, in books that anyone may read, in contributions to knowledge which all can share. He is a teacher who has drawn out of a long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they...
...That's your masterpiece, Harrington," said a voice behind her. "Yes," came the satisfied answer. "But the anguish it cost me. I tell you the creation of a good work drains your soul . . . that terrible straining to convey a flash you've had of something . . . something...
Even to Russians the swarthy Kremlin Dictator does not convey his views or orders in a monolog. Like Mussolini, Stalin has the habit, nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned...
...likely to be the case with cinema stories which are genuinely suited to their medium, no recapitulation of the plot of The Whole Town's Talking can begin to convey its superlative qualities as entertainment. Equipped with material which they could have used as the basis for uproarious comedy or stark horror, Scenarists Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion...