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...most important criticism of Mr. Harris's argument can be made where they are most vital: in the field of modern literature. His assertion that the chief values of modern civilization, science, democracy, and so on, are adequate for tragedy of serious proportion goes shipwreck not only because those values are inferior in kind to the social values of the Greeks, of Dante, and of the Renaissance, but also because they are questioned by us at an unparalleled degree, especially by contemporary writers. Ibsen did not, as Mr. Harris think, write "Ghosts," or "Hedda Gabler," on the basis...

Author: By M. F. F., | Title: BOOKENDS | 1/20/1933 | See Source »

Iron men and wooden ships-the cat-o'-nine-taiis-South Sea paradise-mutiny- shipwreck-open boats-a trial for piracy, with perjury and missing witnesses-unjust sentence-happy ending-these are the time-honored ingredients of Authors Nordhoff & Hall's surefire seafaring tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sure Fire | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...This morning we feel like Jack London's 'Sea Wolf' who when the shipwreck left him with only his tattered garments, looked out upon the world and toward the heavens and cried out in triumph?'I still live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: I Still Live!~ | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...nation cannot go on borrowing to meet its current requirements," said the report. "Unless some way is found by which party leaders can modify their election pledges, democracy will suffer shipwreck." Recommendations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unmitigated Gloom | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Commonwealth was saved from financial shipwreck last week when the $140,000,000 conversion loan; needed to straighten out tangled finances (TIME, Sept. 17, et ante), was oversubscribed by $8,750,000 by 117,000 subscribers. The treasury proudly announced that 103,000 subscribers had sent $95,000,000 in cash or checks. Said J. E. Fenton, Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Henry Scullin (on his way back from the Imperial Conference at London): "I am very hopeful that if we continue to pull together we will soon find come out of the black cloud of depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALL: Lang's Lady Friends | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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