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...busy being stimulated by split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy the simple compensations of life; 2) that in trying to regulate the political structure so as to alleviate economic distress, man swings from autocracy to democracy with perfect futility. The settings convey an impression of cogwheels, greasy steel pistons, chains, derricks, clanking, rumbling, thumping. The tempo is furious, yet the action is not without clarity. Probably Rapid Transit, when it was first written several years ago, was startlingly radical. Today, it is a better one of many...
Minister Massey: "Allow me, Mr. President, on behalf of His Majesty's Canadian Government and the people of Canada, to convey to you, sir, assurances of their high and sincere regard...
...English gentleman named Langford Reed edited the book to the accompaniment of a twenty page introduction that could, oh, so well, have been dispensed with. It dissertates (no less impressive word would convey the dreariness of the discussion) on the nature of true nonsense verse. Lewis Carroll's technique, and informs us triumphantly of the awful libel that the author of "Alice" may have been the inventor of cross-word puzzles. His comments and foot-notes sound as if they had been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that...
...does Napoleon's early life in Corsica, the tremendous activity of his years of power, and the six years of solitude in St. Helena, which are described as fully as any other period in his life. The tempo and the style are swift, an artistic device to convey the energy of the subject. It is successful too in suggesting the development of Napoleon's plans with the progress of his achievements. No premature dreams of world dominion are attributed to the Artillery officer when he is still intriguing unsuccessfully for mastery of Corsica...
More words, however, fail utterly to convey any adequate impression of the music. The vagabond must go to hear it for himself. And certainly, with Glee Club concerts to judge from, he will not be disappointed...