Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Majestic at 8.10--"Good News". Old faithful, the collegiate musical comedy. Everyone has seen it by now, but once isn't enough--every dinner party goes...
...regaining a position of honor and trust among the nations. She has honestly endeavored to sustain a balance of concord in the world; and while other powers equivocate on treaties of peace, she has steadfastly backed them. One does not need to believe that this is altruism; it is enough that the ogre has proved to be a very gentle creature, and that Deutsche Treue has found international bearing where once was jingoism...
...guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most imperiously for him who would dare. And if fruit and sugar production fails to fill the craving for the Caribbees, still...
Naturally enough, the first half of the book, dealing with the astronomy, geology and biology of the earth's creation, is far more satisfying than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking...
...actual writing of the book is, of course, as good as the author"s prose can be, and that is good enough for anyone. But if you liked "South Wind," you had better rearead it, and avoid the disappointment that "In the Beginning" is sure to bring...