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Answer: Human nature needs most education on the very fundamentals of living. It is astonishing how few people know the ABC of science, for example, Economics and still less of spiritual needs. How can they float their ideas, of ideals, if they know so little about the essentials of right living. The people are so ignorant of the truths that would enable them to build up a progressive and constructive and fairly happy society...
...today as a sort of gigantic liner on a luxury cruise. She sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
...Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas, he may try the palace of Herrenchiemsee near Munich, where...
...Calder's mobiles convey a feeling of insecurity by emphasizing the instability of the ground, they make one aware at the same time that this can be overcome by developing man's natural sense of balance. Shapes which appear to float in space are actually highly controlled in the artist's universe...
...their lines are often so clever that they ring faintly of dishonesty. Poetry, especially as it is applied to the stage, can dig down into the depths of a human soul and reveal the raw emotions which lie hidden there. Fry's poetry seldom does this-it seems to float on the surface, a frosting on the dramatic cake. But if the poet cannot be profound, he at least knows how to be amusing. When the epigrams, many of which do contain some momentary truth, are bright, and when Katherine Cornell is on stage, The Dark Is Light Enough redeems...