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...this were the worst sin of "Wide Open Town" it might have struggled by. After all, the average reader unassimilated to its background will not pause to distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig...
...Princeton. Or rather, you can, but if you want to, you had better go somewhere else. Princeton is not a university but a college, whose tendency in the last ten years has increasingly been to turn out a more and more dominant type, a type less and less distinguish able from Yale's. I call him the junior executive, and I regard him as a very uninteresting kind of person. The Princeton product may have slightly better manners than his Eli contemporary (softening influence of pastoral surroundings) but I submit that he is approaching complete Elification with the speed...
...last two days the Vagabond has been looking into this carrillon question. He has discovered, among other things, that every good musical bell should have five distinct tones, all in harmony, and he has also found that the lower the tone of the bell, the more difficult to distinguish the different tones. Now the Vagabond makes no claim to being a carrilloneur, but he can hear a quantity of quite superfluous tones in the bass bell of Lowell House. And since there are five tones to each bell and there are nineteen bells, that would make ninety-five tones...
...favorite question on Shakespeare examinations is ''Distinguish between horror and terror." Sanctuary is compact of both. The horrors of any ghost story pale beside the ghastly realism of this chronicle...
...August (TIME, Sept. 22), told reporters who visited him following an operation by Dr. William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore: "The most important thing I can tell you is that I will be able to see again! At present the picture is a smudge, but I can distinguish color and form...