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...Poems. Miss Lowell treats as a skilled gardener does a rosebush he is transplanting: what the world sees ?leaf, thorn, flower?she deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic...
...then, you say, did they revolt? Because they were practically bribed to revolt. Certain of the great western powers, appealing to the religious and nationalistic sentiments of the people, offered to the Armenians the flower of Liberty, Independence, and certain Turkish territories. They revolted, Practically the same offer was made to the people of Mesopotamia--what have they now? Almost 100,000 British in their country. We pity them. The same thing happened to the Syrians. Instead of the promised liberty and so forth, they have a host of Frenchmen. It is Lloyd George's imperialistic policies that are responsible...
...George Bernard Shaw, famed sophisticate, from Grigori Zinoviev, Chief of the Third Internationale, went an answer to the former's sneering criticism of the Bolshevik regime. Said M. Zinoviev: "Shaw, flower of the petty bourgeoisie, considers himself above Karl Marx. But if we compare both, Shaw appears as a scarcely visible dust speck...
...great theatre was assembled all the grandeur that is Rome. There sat the Queen Mother Margherita and, near by, stalled or boxed, silked or uniformed, the flower of Roman aristocracy. The assemblage lacked, it is true, the presence of Benito Mussolini, but he sent a message voicing his regret at being unable to leave the Chamber of Deputies...
...Flower of the petty bourgeoise...