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...Christmas Day, 1921, President Harding pardoned a model prisoner, a broken prophet. Around him he saw his Socialist Party disintegrating; within him he felt his strength ebbing. His speeches seemed almost pathetic; his pen had lost its throb. A month ago he went to a sanitarium in Elmhurst, Ill., where he died, aged...
...expressed surprise, and said that I supposed President Masaryk and Foreign Minister Benes, tho 'Allah and his Prophet who founded and built up (TIME, May 5, 1923; June 28, 1926) the Czechoslovakian republic after the War, were so revered by the people that any cabinet of which M. Benes was a member would be stable. I was told that M. Masaryk and M. Benes are indeed above all parties; and that M. Benes would certainly continue as Foreign Minister in the new cabinet; but that it was considered necessary to find a new premier about whom the newly representative...
...story of the Baptist-Prophet, is undoubtedly fraught with emotionalism, and the intensity of feeling, the suffering and anticipation which permeate the facts of his life, and the lives of his followers, were in some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair...
...becomes a great director and the cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...
Intellectual England is indeed fortunate in possessing a dismal prophet Dean Inge's repeated reminders that the advance of civilization is by no means inevitable may be just the spur which the national genius needs to ensure progress...