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Smooth olive skin, enormous brown eyes, a close black beard and hennaed locks carefully plaited distinguish Emir Abdullah of Transjordania. Annoyed by torrid questions put to him by one of the few U. S. women he has ever received, His Highness answered coldly...
...ringing the elevator bell on the tenth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Vanderbilt one afternoon last week was nervous. Everything was in order in the room he had left. Trunks were packed with costumes, photographs, stacks of letters bound with rubber bands brittle with age. There remained to distinguish the hotel room from hundreds of others ready to be abandoned only a photograph of big-chested Enrico Caruso in a white-piped vest and a little bronze head which Caruso had made of himself. The man who waited nervously for the elevator had the hardest afternoon of his life...
...general and abstract a discussion Mr. Demos has very little time to distinguish the man who is formally educated in college from the man who educates himself by experience, reflection and by training his mind. Formal education has certain immense advantages. The deliberate breadth of the instruction offered, the association with professional teachers and with other students, stimulate the mind before contact with the world has paralyzed it with routine. But college instruction, as every college instructor agrees, has no exclusive rights to wonder, awareness, judgment and intellectual honesty. Although many educated men have degrees after their names, the will...
...prosecution of Mr. Harris' thesis leads him to distinguish values in the literature of the past which he labels "sociological," and which to in finally determine the fate of a work of art, since they both create its first popularity and assure its fall from popularity when in the course of time civilization makes its sociological values obsolete. Mr. Harris claims that these values have not been adequately reckoned with by earlier literary theorists; which cannot be wholly true, since "sociological," as the author uses the term, includes "religious," and certainly the religious aspects of Greek drama have been sufficiently...
This befuddlement arises mainly from failure to distinguish between the serious industrial and economic problem which intelligent folk have long admitted, and the particular "ism" adumbrated by a word. Technocracy, which was invented by William Henry Smyth...