Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houses' should be hostile to these clubs, but it is evident that the contacts which a club supplies are far too limited for a widening effect upon the members, and it is equally evident that the majority of men who do not belong to any club are not less in need of a more coordinating social organization than Harvard College offers them today...
Great as has been the discussion concerning the despoliation of Europe's old masters by Americans, a still more furious storm threatens on the horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials...
...spite of the many excellent paragraphs in the book, it is not important. There is nothing fundamentally new although there is much that gains distinction through organization and skillful phrasing. The difficulties of sexual affairs are well considered and the good old solution by sublimation is touched on though less convincingly perhaps than is frequent...
...need no more crusaders to champion its truth. There has come from the presses lately a steady stream of literature, all of which maintains, in effect, that the colleges are all right, and do not deserve the criticism leveled at them by a number of people which is certainly less than the number now refuting the criticism...
Following a most rapidly moving opening reel in which the scene shifts from an Indian reservation to a co-ed college and thence to a tribal village in Arizona in less than ten minutes, the picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...