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...spirit of Christ and of the Gautama?might have more faith in God, and not be so fearful of their little brand of religion being overturned by tolerance toward other faiths. Intolerance will never make the world Christian, but sympathetic understanding of God-likeness wherever we find it will redeem the world. DRYDEN L. PHELPS...
...Zimmermann, perhaps the most celebrated of Dutch fiscal experts, was present at Geneva last week, was warmly congratulated upon his achievements in stabilizing the schilling, balancing the Austrian budget, administering with sage economy the $126,000,000 loan floated to redeem Austria from national bankruptcy (TIME, Sept...
Fire). But after all it is not possible to redeem war from its baseness, merely to please M. Barbusse. "In God's name, let us forget the stench, since we must fight through it!" wailed the distracted bourgeoisie when they read Le Feu and promptly tossed it into the fire. Last week M. Barbusse returned from a trip through "Europe's Little Hell: the Balkans" and many readers of Le Quotidien threw that newspaper into the fire rather than endure his searing expose...
...from that of Dr. Edward Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist and Dean of the Harvard Medical School. The professional opposition to him raged, not against his operative principles and methods, rather against the noisy publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like...
...plays but one part in comedy, that of the stuttering country wit, misunderstood, despised, but in the end triumphant. He has never to my knowledge attempted other characters, nor is it necessary that he should. This vehicle has sufficed often enough to redeem trashy plays and hopeless casts. It is far better that an actor should give himself entirely to the audience once, that to display portions of himself a number of times...