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After meditating upon this for less than a fortnight, the exceedingly quick-minded and bold Emperor issued on Jan. 12, 1874 the Imperial Ordinance upon which is based today the treasured right of every Japanese, without distinction of race, creed or sex, to submit each year to the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household Ministry a tanka of 31 syllables. The subject of the nationwide competition this year was Kaijo Kumo Tooshi or "Clouds Far Over...
...finds himself in the dilemma of every serious writer: how to say what he means without getting tangled in the means of saying it. His second book shows that he still has something to say but is not yet sure of how to say it. Inhale & Exhale announces his creed but does not propagate his gospel...
...taxing the people to the point where they were either paupers or thieves. Lincoln knew that patronage was the greatest enemy of all governments. . . . Would that we had a man like Lincoln in the White House today. If we did, he would never allow a brain-trusters' creed to teach the doctrine that you can boondoggle yourself back to prosperity...
...priest able to require new parts for his Buick drives the League of the Militant Godless into tantrums. Their Jubilee last week was devoted to exhortations and alarms over what they consider a "New Menace": priests in various parts of Russia have now nimbly inserted Bolshevism into their creed and are preaching what seems to peasants a harmonious blend of Communism and Christianity. The Godless bitterly complained last week that priests have identified themselves so closely with Joseph Stalin's pet collective farms as to announce sternly from their pulpits that peasants who refuse to join the collective cannot...
These superficially contradictory circumstances last week were important because they revealed the peculiar way in which sport in general is defined by Nazi minds. Sport in Germany is by no means a mere diversion from more serious affairs. It fits into the Nazi creed of Strength through Joy. The religious intensity with which up-to-date Nazis have accepted this nebulous idea can be perceived in the enthusiasm with which groups of healthy young Germans roll down practice slopes in the effort to learn how to ski, in the amazingly extensive methods by which Germany's Olympic Committee, functioning...