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...than anyone else to keep the U. S. Singles trophy in the U. S. for another year. Unfortunately, since he played inadequately at Rye three weeks ago and has done nothing since, he seems more likely to be put out at Forest Hills before he gets a chance to distinguish himself...
...expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...
...people who during the night heroically smear window panes, who placard every German buying from a Jewish store as a traitor to the nation, who declare every Freemason a scoundrel and who, in the justified battle against political pastors and chaplains, are now no longer able to distinguish between religion and the misuse of the pulpit...
...purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less to pass judgment on the relative merits and virtues of those two sorts of thinking...
...great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit, of politeness is one of the features that distinguish civilized urbanity from the frontier, and make a pleasure out of the process of living...