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...discordant enough to baffle or antagonize those of conventional tastes. Personally, following (as always) the latest musical fashion, Taylor wears his hair short, dresses well, is an animated conversationalist. Twenty years ago, no one would have taken him for a real musician. Times have changed in St. Cecilia's realm...
...straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect...
...until she was ten that Alice got the chance of going to school. From her earlier days she showed great promise, especially in the realm of literature. A marriage engagement almost wrecked the scholastic future upon which she had unconsciously embarked. She broke the engagement, went to Michigan State University (co-educational), scored one long and brilliant success, graduated...
During the afternoon when Proctor took the single out, the upper Charles was by no means the placid stream it usually is and it is entirely within the realm of possibility that an accident may have occurred. The inclement weather, to gather with the scheduled races, offered small inducement to scullers yesterday, and it is doubtful whether there were any other boats in the vicinity. The river is very narrow at that point, however, and it is thought that a swimmer of even ordinary ability could have reached the shore. Rules for sculling in the University demand that...
...That is why I think the Debating Union is misguided in its choice of a subject, Professor Sprague concluded. "It seems to me evident that if socialism comes, it will come not by revolution but by evolution, and in that case, it belongs in the realm of sheer speculation. Methods of production, the organization of industry, our whole social fabric, will inevitably be affected by new discoveries and inventions, and by the time we have developed to the point where we will be willing to live in a socialist state, socialism may find itself outworn and useless...