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Serpent of the Nile. The second night brought far vaster sweep, but greater sprawl. A marvel of language, full of what Coleridge called Shakespeare's "angelic strength," Antony with its 42 scenes is also full of history's tumultuous, haphazard movement. Not angelic wings, but seven-league boots are needed for this panoramic drama of conquests and civil wars that is even more a chronicle of power than it is of passion. The characters are uniformly worldlings, plotters, palter-ers, betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate...
...automobile had earned undisputed prominence in the pages of the magazine. Hobbyists were being taught how to build their own radios. The progress of motion pictures, the first hints of television were both discussed. As early as 1941, amateur scientists, who knew about Einstein by now, could marvel at prophecies of fantastic power hidden in the atomic heart of uranium...
...editors of the British Medical Journal, but hangovers of old-fashioned Puritanism. "In Shakespeare's time," editorializes the Journal, "there were Puritans who condemned drinking out-and-out, and Falstaff is eloquently scornful of them: 'Nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine...
...More and more I am convinced that if we spent half the time with people that we spend with bureaus and departments, the world would marvel at the results...
...moving even faster than military technology. Nobody knows whether the U.S. can, in fact, carry the burden. It is only certain that no other nation ever could. Two centuries ago, a nation that could spend on sustained defense 10% of its food bill would have been a marvel. The U.S. now thinks it can spend $7 billion more for defense in a year than it does for its total annual food bill...