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...English language, recalling Dreiser's powerful clumsiness, he never consciously wrote a shoddy line. On the 20th century stage, so far, only Shaw and Sean O'Casey outrank him. He failed in his ultimate goal, to go beyond the tree line of tragedy and reach the highest, noblest peaks. But few others in his day have tried to climb so high...
MANY Europeans and Asians mistrust the tendency to dragoon the whole world into two big-power blocs, each professing the noblest intentions and emitting, alternately, highfalutin slogans about democracy and Tarzanlike boasts of invincible might. We have seen this tendency in American and Soviet policy alike. We believe that it is wrong in itself, and likelier to lead to war than to peace...
Russian Arias and Songs (Boris Christoff, basso; H.M.V.). One of the world's noblest voices and a program eminently suited for bassos. Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov account for most of the ten selections...
...unplayable. Very likely this rumor got around because for years few people ever saw it played. Performed on Broadway last week for the first time since 1917, it pranced and hallooed and came hilariously to life, giving further reason for saluting Shaw's ghost with: "This was the noblest showman of them...
...expected of them in their kind of war. The discouraging stalemates and attrition of Korea, in a word, had only whetted the most gleaming weapon the Marine Corps carries when it is panoplied for war: the quietly arrogant certainty that U.S. Marines are the world's best and noblest fighting men, that they always have been and always will...