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Demarsico. The pent-up energies of the Fascist deputies were released in noisy bombardments when Fascist Deputy Demarsico arose to defend his chief, Benito. One by one he took the arguments of Signer Soleri and metaphorically broke them over his thighs. At each snap of the hapless Soleri indictments, the cries of the Fascisti grew more and more delirious. Came the time for paying tribute to the martyrs of Fascismo. Demarsico turned to Soleri, shouted: "They died smilingly, our 3,000 martyrs, to construct something permanent. Make no illusions for yourselves; they have indeed created something permanent; and their sacrifice...
Among the many things which the war was to have accomplished, not a little has been said and written about a twentieth century renaissance. The movement has its prophets. They have predicted that out of the cataclysm of war the forces of pent up genius will burst into full blossoms to lead the way to greater intellectual freedom...
Radical opinion in the United States is at present most effective outside of politics, but there is still the threat of a nondescript third party. The weight of authority seems temporarily to have sobered radical opinion in England, Italy, and Germany. One feels, however, there that radicalism is merely pent-up for the time being. In Russia where the former radicals have become in a way conservative, opinion comes principally from the extreme left. That wing now advocates a new calendar bringing one holiday in every five days and a new day of twenty-five hours...
...killed himself in order to see whether his wife had gone to heaven or not suffered from the same infirmity of mind. Critics of journalistic sensationalism should be more tolerant: instead of an incitement to crime, the green and pink and yellow sheets are simply a relief for pent-up curiosity. For this relief, much thanks...
...third Russian Folk song: "At Father's Door". The Volga Bargemen's song arrangement is original and convincing; the "Fireflies" very effectively done. But the third one more than any of the others is worthy of the great powers of the Glee Club; in it, the listener felt the pent-up energy, the restlessness, the subterranean mutterings, the whole background of the Russian Revolution; the Glee Club vivified this remarkable feeling to an extreme degree. No one who heard them will ever doubt their greatness everyone who heard that song will feel confident that of the elements necessary...