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...country and consequently knows more about it than the average American is a widely accepted fact. Perhaps in recognition of this, educators and prominent men throughout the country are constantly advocating the teaching of citizenship in public schools. They could, therefore, with much reason point the finger of scorn at Harvard for not requiring of its students any knowledge of their country's government or Constitution...
...philosopher, has bought her love for one week. The monk Athena? perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ. His ancient comrade, Pelamon, says: "My son, ne'er mingle with the people of this era"; Nicias laughs in scorn; the mob throws stones; yet he succeeds in reforming Thaïs. Thaïs sees the emptiness of pleasure, is led in ecstacy to a convent. Then Athana? leaves her, but finds that he loves her in the flesh. Madly he denounces God, says nothing is real " but life and passion...
Prohibitionists love to point the finger of scorn at such depraved states as New Jersey or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island and call for more rigor fom Washington. Anti-prohibitionists lay a finger beside their noses and cry, "Aha! what we need is less rigor." Yet out of it all there is little change from year to year except in an increasing amount of law-breaking. President Harding called his conference of governors and made strong statements, but nothing happened. President Coolidge has given his conference wise suggestions practically all he could do. And judging from past experience nothing probably will...
...matter of viewpoint? "A nice mother's heart is lacerated and a slavish father's pocketbook insultingly proffered when their son's wild oat comes to light. The heroine, backed by an open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy load. Katherine Alexander, as a young sister of the oat-sower, furnishes a few waking moments by some realistic flapping...
...Significance. Life seen with exquisite clarity, subtlety, thoughtfulness, humor, sometimes with scorn or sorrow, but never with spite or despair. Unerring felicity of word and line?work so beautifully, unobtrusively apt and accomplished that beside it most contemporary prose seems careless and shoddy. And yet the technique is not all?is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...