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Undoubtedly the most difficult scene to handle was the third, in which Man, now a rich and influential playwright, gives a ball for his friends. Skillful in balancing the previous scene when Man and his wife were the seekers, the ambitious ones, and the unfortunates, against their single and dramatic...
"The only way in which this frightful waste can be stopped is by a radial changed in our education methods. What we need is a differentiation between the good minds and the poorer ones. Then we may go ahead with intensive, individual instruction for those men who have proved themselves...
Frightful tension follows. Who recovered? Whose ball is it? On what line? Wet palms are pressed against trouser legs. How about it?
But both branches of the government are working under the theory that all things come to him who waits, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. Meanwhile, trade is at a standstill, patents are in abeyance, and various anachronistic war powers of the government are functioning...
Never has the United States had such a shining proposition offered to it. We are asked to give up no part of our constitution, our system of government, our laws, our possessions, except the present right to make war when we think best, for reasons that satisfy us, against any...