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...from his visit to the front (TIME, June 22), made important reports in secret to the committees of the Chamber. To this procedure the Communists strenuously objected and were quieted only by the strong hands of a dozen or so sergeant-at-arms. Socialists were in a state of flux and could not make up their minds whether to support the Government's Moroccan policy or range themselves definitely with the Opposition. As a vote on this point was postponed, they were left in their quandry...
Last week, in Manhattan, two exhibitions opened which reveal the forms that these two impulses, still in flux, have taken in contemporary Art: One by Lorsen Feitelson and his wife, Nathalie Newking, at the Daniels Gallery; another by ten famed Frenchmen, at the Dudensing Galleries...
Significance. Trouble on the seas and the world in flux; General Washington, in his yellow coach blazoned with cupids, lumbering, for the last time, from the Capitol; a Corsican swelling in Europe like a wen-such a period inevitably lent a lustre to extravagance and was a nursery of fantastic spirits. It is with this period that Author Minnigerode is primarily concerned. His essays are like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle...
...ruminating Philosopher loses himself in a rapture upon the instability of things in general and the comforting permanence which underlies all flux and change--even the violent, upheavals of earthquakes...
...dust and ashes. These men claim a share in that human inheritance which Harvard once stood for: they seek those foundations of thought that reach down to the centre of life. Yet as they approach you, they find that the ground beneath their feet is in a flux. They come to escape from Pittsburgh and they find Hollywood. What will such men do when they begin to realize that you have no interest in the things they seek, and no interest in the seekers themselves, save to get money from them for the building of more buildings and the herding...