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...published his memoirs.* Expressed in simplest terms and in Mr. Pettigrew's own phrase, the volume aims to suggest that "politicians serve the business interests first and the public afterwards." (Mr. Pettigrew is ostensibly Socialist-though he started Republican and in 1896 became Populist-Democrat...
...SIMPLEST TERMS...
...picture shows in the simplest manner that things are not always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted...
There are two solutions. The simplest is to shift the responsibility to the collective imagination of the audience. Drape the stage with silk curtains, put two chairs in front, twin beds in the rear, and page Mr. Avery Hopwood. Or (as in Dagmar, the sophisticated melodrama with Nazi mova), put three beach chairs on a yellow stage with a blue backdrop and call it the seashore. In Mary the 3rd, Rachel Crothers' humorous tragedy of incompatibility, the first two scenes are mounted only with draperies, a modicum of furniture, and off-stage music...
...including three from Harvard, and have proceeded on a basis of "complete organization". Briefly, all popular interests are divided into sixteen departments, such as Sports, Foreign Affairs, Books, Plays, Crimes; and a specialist covers each. The articles will be short and straightforward, easily accessible, giving facts in their simplest shape; and, there will be no editorials. The editors publish their prejudices in the first issue, and thereafter hold their peace. Appropriately, they have christened their brainchild "Time...