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...appears quiet in Athens and Salonika. But all sources agree that danger lies ahead unless the excesses of the right are checked and checked quickly. In effect, these excesses differ little from those reported in Yugoslavia. Arrests, imprisonments and murders have been carried out on a large scale. The British are just as agitated by this swing to the right as they were by the left swing, and are laboring to check...
...chosen the pieces for The Crack-Up so carefully that they lead in a straight, chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived and he wrote...
Such in brief is my report on the academic year which ends this afternoon. Some of you with grave responsibility for war and postwar affairs heavy on your shoulders may feel that I have been speaking of relatively trivial academic matters. If so, I beg to differ. Universal education is the great instrument created by American democracy to secure the foundations of a republic of free men. Our colleges and universities are an integral part of this system which has no equivalent in other lands. We are more closely linked to the national life, I believe, than the corresponding institutions...
Isotopes and Hafnium. The work of the chemistry prizewinner, Hevesy, was related to the physicists' researches. He studied atoms by means of X rays and isotopes (slight variations in chemical elements which differ from each other only in radiactivity or atomic weight). By X-ray analysis, Hevesy discovered hafnium, No. 72 in the table of elements...
They found that the various strands in a bundle of nerves, like the wires in a telephone cable, differ in the impulses they transmit; that individual nerve cells are "like tubular electrical condensers"; that the impulses of pain depend on the tiniest nerve strands...