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...Webbs do not like the term dictatorship as applied to Russia, consider the Soviet Government less autocratic than many a parliamentary cabinet. As indications that Russia is actually a "multiform democracy" they cite the widespread popular discussion of proposed laws. The marriage law of 1927 was thus argued over for a year before adoption; the 'liquidation of the kulaks" for more than two. To the reader's astonished question: Is Stalin, then, not a dictator? the Webbs return a firm No. "The Government of the U.S.S.R. during the past decade has been clearly no better than that...
...authors have made research on Character* They are headmasters of New England private schools. Their quarry is elusive, ideal, multiform. Like sensible men, each author has conducted that part of the work for which he is specially qualified. By this means a scheme of education for the modern boy is outlined thoroughly, authoritatively, in six chapters. The book recommends itself highly to parents and pedagogs...
...Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...
...from the forest multiform its base comprising...