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...only difficulty foreseen by prominent educators is that "politics might creep in." It is feared that the Department of Education will not remain purely advisory, like the Department of Agriculture, but will attempt to interfere in local enterprises, or at least force uniform policies upon institutions and systems which ought to be free. Propaganda again! With all the advantages which there would certainly be in centralization, there might indeed be grave disadvantages. Municipal politics have ruined the school system of more than one city...
John Corbin: "The actors, one and all, creep snugly into the skins of their parts and live there...
When Does the Goose Creep Into the Flesh? It was nearly half past three in the morning. Somewhere a clock tolled the hour-twelve long strokes. Down the shadow-shrouded stairway moved a skeleton, clad only in a pair of violet pajamas. Softly, sibilantly, the spectre sped. An errant mouse cried out in terror, his hoarse shriek breaking the tense stillness. At the foot of the stairs a single, shining shaft of moonshine drenched the leg of a human being, severed at the knee, lying in a pool of gore. Arsenic Hatpin, gentleman capitalist, inserted a single eyeglass deftly into...
...Lester strip mine. They fire hundreds of shots into the company sheds and freight cars, where the strike breakers and guards have intrenched themselves. But the beleaguered defenders are equipped with machine guns and three union miners are riddled early in the action. Night falls and the besiegers creep closer-to within forty yards of the enemy. They crouch behind a parapet of earth thrown up by a steam-shovel and wait for daylight to finish their bloody work...
...intelligible enough, and entertaining. The other characters are knowable and their actions follow human motives, displayed for their own sake. Yet there is a topsy-turvy something in the play, a hinting at hidden meanings, which sets the key awry. What are the innuendoes of symbolism that seem to creep in, unexplained, from time to time? What lies lurking in the back of the author's mind, that he is unwilling to let us see? Is it merely the sense of a partness that "He" feels, the intangibility of the world and of his fellows, or is there something more...