Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public that has been fed for twelve months on such hors-d'oevres as the Dempsey-Tunney fight, the death of Rudolph Valentino, Queen Marie, the Hall-Mills case, Aimee McPherson, President Coolidge's sportive antics in the Adirondacks, and Peaches Browning, there must certainly appear symptoms that need the cear sort of diagnosis that Mr. Johnson has provided...
Walter Lippman in the current "Atlantic Monthly" analyses the causes of American political indifference. He finds that they are based on the facts that the United States is prosperous, therefore uncritical, that the parties do not represent popular interest, that fundamental issues are avoided in politics. He need not have gone so deeply into the question. The spectacle of men who are supposed to represent the interests of a nation acting in a manner which on the street would make them liable to arrest is not edifying. Nor is it surprising that a well-fed public does not pay much...
...here was a fine chance for them. The book voted "book of the month" would gain distinction (publicity). Also it would be bought by the Club by the thousand to send to members of the Club. The members were obtained (there are now 40,000) by assuring people they need no longer worry about what to read; or about remembering to buy. The eminent Selecting Committee decides for them; the efficient business staff buys for them. Harry Carrier brings a new book each month? and if they dislike it they can send it back, ask for another...
...best argument able, active book-buyers can give for not joining the Book of the Month Club is this: "Why should we buy books from you when we can buy the same books, at the same price, at the stores? We hear your recommendations. We need no insurance against our supposed lethargy. And as nonmembers, we are freer to disagree with your committee...
...said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle of Art about a nothingness, then convince the reader that there is a live spook inside the sheet after all. The book is not "promising," and the authoress need not be "watched," but her courage, persistence, and a certain as yet wavering flair for the mot juste make this a far from mediocre "first." First-Novelist Chilton is daughter of onetime U. S. Senator W. E. Chilton (West Virginia...