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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticizing the University for trying to develop "the exceptional man," he declared that "if Harvard could learn anything" it might turn toward "developing graduates who are a pleasant, helpful part of life in a world where modern communication and transportation have broken down geographical boundaries to a point of distraction, with the resultant effort turning back to the centripetal, toward a homogeneity and congeniality, and no longer centrifugal toward ascendency and exceptionalism...
...method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference and thus to contribute to the assurance of peace in Europe." In Paris, where Premier Daladier enjoyed the greatest ovation in modern French history on his return from Munich, he was severely criticized the morning afterward for not having obtained from Adolf Hitler some such two-man peace pledge as Mr. Chamberlain got. It was this document, not the four-power pact dismembering Czechoslovakia, which the British Prime Minister proudly waved when...
...material evidence of modern civilization should be left to ruin by world war or other cataclysm, archeologists thou sands of years hence might find the remains of skyscrapers, subways, concrete highways, pottery, glass, jewels, coins, some tools, the debris of machinery. The written records would have crumbled to dust, and the archeologists might conclude that the inhabitants of the present world were half-literate savages gifted with great engineering ability. But if future diggers explored the broad Mesopotamian valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, in what is now Iraq, they would find thousands of clay tablets bearing the cuneiform writing...
...hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published in the U.S. as The Innocent Voyage}, a perversely humorous best-seller...
...inventing the luxury hotel, Ritz perforce had to pay attention to plumbing, and this led him to an interest in hygiene in general. At a time when even palaces stank with clogged drains, Ritz put in modern plumbing; in addition he threw out heavy, germ-catching furnishings, gave every room a southern exposure. Within a short time the Paris Ritz became known as the best sanatorium in Europe...