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...whole, The Saintliness of Margery Kempe demonstrates once again that The Poets' Theatre posesses the ability as well as the resources to perform a valuable service as a producer of experimental drama, and that all it needs is some decant material. It's pity that the group is forced to stage this sort of stuff...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Saintliness of Margery Kempe | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

...social studies Black Mountain, instead of expecting students to decant social knowledge from the cobwebbed classics, encourages them to moonshine their own product from the process of living together in a closely knit community. Students help the faculty's Board of Fellows run the college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black Mountain's Tenth | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Particularly galling to patriotic homebodies were his frequent junkets into darkest Nazi Germany, whence he would return to his sanctum at No. 175 Piccadilly to decant fresh magnums of purple ink in praise of totalitarianism. In The Aeroplane for July 5 he finally rared back and delivered this sockdolager: "Even the misguided English Foreign Policy which tried to make an enemy of Italy over the Abyssinian business, instead of adopting Sir Samuel Hoare's sensible scheme for splitting Abyssinia between Italy, France and ourselves, has failed to destroy Italian friendliness. But then, naturally, the Italian people do not read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kiwi | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...said, would be about $25,000. The experts then began a learned squabble, some advising that the phosgene be dumped into the North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold millions of fish, and still others recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that the phosgene should be disintegrated by the admixture of other chemicals into a harmless residual product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Magic at Hamburg | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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