Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comic interlude Balaam appears belaboring his ass, which balks at the shining angel in his path. The High Priest was also intended as a comic figure. In scorn and derision he listens to the prophecies, laughs raucously at Saint Augustine's chant, and harangues his Jewish followers. He contrasts grotesquely with the sober, dignified Augustus who calmly opposes his biblical arguments to the raging High Priest and his followers...
With a rapid pickup, a lean chassis, and no brakes, smooth-running Carr of Syracuse jeered at the shaky semaphores which Columbia propped in his path; supplied all the locomotion, his team needed...
...long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose...
Herein lies the danger. Instead of educating public opinion the World Court propagandists are endeavoring to stampede it. From senate chamber to college mass meeting the World Court issue is being presented as the great choice between following the path toward peace or the path toward war. In the Senate and in public mass meetings, if the World Court is a political issue, as it seems to be, that is all right. In the colleges it is all wrong. College students should be kept free of mass meetings and propaganda on this question. It should remain an academic question--mark...
Slowly, with infinite care, the vast spaces of the insane are being plotted by science. Every day new data are recorded, new hypotheses proved. But until the time comes when all this vast field is completely charted, justice must continue to grope blindly in the path of duty. Of course the New Jersey jury were sincere. Of course they acted as best they could in the light of their poor knowledge. But the accuracy of their decision must continue a mystery until this variable, this indeterminate insanity is brought by science within the understanding of human justice...