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...teams (their baseball team beat Cornell last month; they are proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life???Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House, etc. etc.?some of them with faculty members in residence...
...imagine a world in the grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will seethe in war and revolt; all mankind is doomed to a steadily decreasing standard of living until poverty, per-haps starvation, is the rule of life???such talk made spice for bear-food last week...
MIDSTREAM: MY LATER LIFE???Helen Keller?Doubleday, Doran...
...imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch of the story?a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch of prose life???becomes merely the concentration necessary for getting so many lives and deaths into the hour-and-a-quarter of a feature picture. A sermon clipping the beginning and the end of the action makes clear that the death of the characters on the breaking bridge, coming at a moment of frustration...
...Flight in the face of maternity?that divine maternity that, together with some brief physical suffering, gives the loftiest and deepest joys of life???is as culpable as the desertion of soldiers in the face of the enemy, as the attempt of the taxpayer to escape the payment of taxes...