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...this supremely disastrous achievement of holding a totally unsuitable economic ant social system in place by sheer force would have been unthinkable if Russia had possessed the safeguard of democracy-in the simplest sense of the existence of responsible and representative gownment...
There are many possible answers. Perhaps the simplest answer is: Because T. S. Eliot is a civilized man. He is more; he is a commentator on his age who is considered by some more important than Gabriel Heatter or Walter Winchell-or even Walter Lippmann...
Thin Drippings. Except for some "thin drippings" on cultural subjects, says Lynd the summer curriculum consists mostly of the so-called "professional" courses, which spin out "the simplest teaching procedures into astonishing lists of redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio-Visual Education, with an eleventh in "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials." Says Lynd: "There seems to be a transcendent mystique of administering anything in the schoo world more complex than a pencil...
...Bestseller. Concentrating on 570 of the most common words, Lorge found that the simplest ones usually have the largest number of meanings. A word like open, for instance, can mean uncovered (open boat), not closed (open door), unrestricted (open to use), forthright (open in manner), or not frozen (open soil). Even little by has 41 meanings...
...Salvation Army is a religion without elaborate liturgy or complicated creed. Its theology is the simplest practice of Christianity. It proceeds on the down-to-earth theory that Christ gave clear instructions on what to do about the degraded, the abandoned and the poor. And so it has fought-with its heart to God and its hand...