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...receipts on these movies provide a vivid guide to the producer as to just what will satisfy the public at any given moment. What one finds in these productions gives an extraordinarily interesting and, I think, significant indication of what the public is thinking, for movies do not only detect the ideas of the public, but they also strongly accentuate already existing tendencies...
...have read Ulysses once in its entirety and I have read those passages of which the Government particularly complains several times. . . . In Ulysses, in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist. I hold therefore that it is not pornographic...
With heavy hearts and dire foreboding the Administration looks ahead to the meeting of Congress next January, realizing that the opening of the grousing season cannot be long delayed. Already keen ears in Washington detect the cocking of shotguns all over the country, a sound unpleasing to the natives. Henry Ford has rallied about him a brave band of those who, for various reasons fear the implications of enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest...
...journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...credited the flight's success entirely to the Proletarian Revolution and the Communist Party. His companions, Ernest Birnbaum and Constantin Godunov, declared the balloon's scientific apparatus had worked perfectly. They found the sky at 11 mi. altitude a deep, soft violet ; they had been unable to detect the earth's curvature...