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There is nothing rapt or perfervid about Mr. Edwards. He says quite simply: "That first year the Seminary simply did not click." But he did not think of quitting. The second year went better...
...lost its most blood-chilling cries-the offscreen screams of the U.S. nurses on Bataan surrendering to the Japanese, which were a high point of the stage play. The cryless Cry Havoc is a less sensational So Proudly We Hail (TIME, Sept. 27). It is harsher and more perfervid than Paramount's star-struck version of nurses on Bataan...
Most readers will find much of the strictly scientific exposition difficult where not unintelligible, some of the flights into pure metaphysical speculation farfetched, perfervid. But there are passages of rare poetic storytelling quality, as in the chapter on "The Amistad Mutiny," which recreates a remarkable bit of illicit slave-trade history, in which Gibbs's father, along with the aged but still eloquent John Quincy Adams, played a leading role...
...been brought up in the Pennsylvania oil fields when the fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
...Harvard Renaissance," an essay by John Reed '10 on the early days of the Socialist Club, deserves to be read by every undergraduate. The "lonely thinkers" and perfervid reformers in the Harvard of 1908 have yielded place to a more sociable and many-sided generation, as I believe. Yet the intellectual passion of that fragrant era ought to be marked and remembered...