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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Count explained that when he said that women ruled in America he did not mean that their direct dominance was apparent on the surface. Their dominance, he explained, was a matter of indirection. For America more than in any European country today, they have succeeded in tempering and charging man's minds and the normal masculine outlook on the world. He believed that the great need of America is "the emancipation of men, rather than the emancipation of women...
...claimed that Bolshevism is a new creed, a new method," Count Keyserling said, "but it is not. Communism as understood in Russia is merely collectivism and the Russians are by nature a collective people. I mean they are just the opposite from individualists...
...Rome', is somewhat naughty, but either I am too wrapped up in the producing of the drama, or else I am just different: I cannot see why after our first performance here in Boston they should cut the lines, and what choice bit they were, too! I do not mean to criticise the Boston audience at all, for contrary to most people's opinion. I find that it is very receptive. Maybe it is because there are so many students out there among the people. I always enjoy playing before students anyway. They seem to be so much livelier...
...Dean Inge's writings there are passages which portray a dangerously uneducated man, by which I mean, of course, not the natural man who has never been to school, but a monster who has been elaborately uneducated at Eton, Cambridge, Oxford and in the Church of England...
...aware that an enormous complexity has given rise to this simplicity. Miss Roberts' medium is effective; her mastery over it demonstrates the possibility of a good poet being a good novelist. And "My Heart And My Flesh" is quite worthy of the author's standard-which is no mean degree of praise...