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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most deplorable that the yellow press should spread catastrophe news about Italy. But it is more deplorable still that some of this news has its origin in the plottings of renegade Italians...
...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
...Golding, recently an officer and lecturer of the English Ethical Societies, will speak at a public meeting of the Boston Ethical Society at S. Jay` Street, Boston, at 11 o'clock Sunday, March 22, M. Golding will take as his subject "Darwinism and Human Dignity: Does Man's Lowly Origin Degrade...
Warfare is more a result of a state of mind. Certainly this observation was proved true by the United States during the World War. A bellicose attitude may have its origin in economic rivalries, such as the Chili-Peru nitrate quarrel, but often it is likewise the cause of economic rivalries. During what Seelye calls the second hundred years war between France and England it was a belligerent attitude that sought expression in economic and political rivalry, as much as it was economic rivalry seeking solution in warfare. It is the hope of the future that these states of mind...
...earth's crust which is submerged under the Bay of Fundy. He bases his opinions on the fact that the two waves of the shock came in quick succession. A quake always divides into two waves which separate as the earthquake travels. Since the two shocks were simultaneous, the origin would seem to have been only 200 or 300 miles away. Because the waves came from the northeast it is probable that the origin was in the region of the Bay of Fundy...