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...they will not wrestle with them. Satire flourishes in the slicks, but it is satire of manners. Few themes or subjects are tabooed but every subject must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused. The 'unhappy ending,' the sole criterion of art when the Dial still lived, is a commonplace in the slicks but genuine tragedy would be as out of place there as a chorus from 'Antigone' interpolated between innings at a baseball game. . . . That fact, not the timidity or hypocrisy of editors, determines the nature...
...qualities which Rhodes specified as composing the criterion for selection included: literary and schoastic ability and attainments; qualities of "manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship"; exhibition of "moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates"; physical vigor...
...Lippmann has a ready answer. It is his great discovery, his golden nugget. Lacking it he never would have had reason to write "The Good Society." The criterion for the activities of the laborer, the farmer, the corporation head, and the public official is to be the perfectly free market, which classical economists have posed as the corollary of the division of labor brought about by the industrial revolution...
...keeps Dublin audiences happy and the Irish Free State satisfied that its subsidy is not being wasted, the renowned Abbey Theatre Players last week began an extended season in the U. S. Less sanctified since the competitive rise of the lively Dublin Gate Theatre, the Abbey is still a criterion for rounded ensemble playing...
Baseball tradition says that the teams that lead the major leagues on July 4 will win the pennants. Another criterion of the baseball races is the players' performances in the annual All-Star game. Inaugurated in Chicago as an Exposition stunt, the All-Star game between an American League team and a National League team, picked by fans' votes, has provided plenty of celebrities but undistinguished baseball. This year the fans had no say in the team selections and Managers Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy, who managed last year's pennant-winning New York Giants...