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...students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ilk, if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
...There are a number of reasons why sincere and honest Christians have recently come to distrust evolution. * * * Too many people who loudly proclaim their allegiance to the Book, know very little about what it really contains...
...that day all will pause to contemplate their sins and repent them. In temples the repentance will be decorous; in synagogues, vigorous. Men will beat their chests and proclaim conventional errors. The very orthodox will pray with covered heads and unshod feet in their humiliation. Children will play with apples spiked with cloves; men will sniff snuff; women will surreptitiously hold vials of heart-strengthening aromatics to noses. Behind screens, separated from the men, will sit the women of orthodox congregations. After their day of fast they must go home to cook the evening meal. (In synagogues of modified orthodoxy...
...students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
...people who sympathize with the Russian philosophies. There, as here, they express themselves through papers and meetings. The papers are poor things that are printed first in one shop, then in another. When they get up here they are taken seriously. Fewer than 100 people will get together and proclaim themselves the Communist Party of Mexico...