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...prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today is 'keep your distance from the other fellow...
...Tooth. Some people say that the soft brilliance of this play has not been equaled on our stage this season. Others that the play is thick spun and quietly uninteresting. These latter are right, according to their lights, and that is why the cinema and Michael Arlen fatten and flourish. The Wisdom Tooth is probably for a few people. These few will go over and over again, perhaps introducing certain of their dependable friends. Then, if they can sell the balcony seats somehow, the piece will...
Lloyd George. "O David of Manchester, reared in Wales . . . your strong point is that you believe everything you utter . . . at least at the moment when it rushes from your lips! . . . War-time is the very element in which men of your type flourish. . . . You feel yourself to be the redeemer of the island-empire. You consider every opponent a villain, and are convinced that no other genius ever produced such ideas as yours...
Last week the diplomatic pressure from both sides eased off into a prolonged flourish of bugles, which may or may not have contained a note or two from the bourgeois-terrifying "Internationale." M. Rakovsky accepted the deafening blast ordered by M. Doumergue at its full tonal value. Smiling, he nodded to the buglers as he entered the palace of the President to present his credentials...
...intellectuals whose desire it is to break a lance for any forlorn cause and die if they can-or at least starve-on the barricade of some well fought for hope. The magazines are published in amazing covers of topaz and mauve and cinnamon. Braver than autumn leaves, they flourish for a while, bailiffs occupy the editorial rooms and grubby gentlemen attach the furniture, and the gay little magazines dry up and perish...