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...nine most fetching and effective Queens and Presidents' wives, none was born to the role. The richest was a souless Paris architecture student when she met her royal husband, the youngest a none too efficient stenographer. Only three come of wealthy families. One Queen was born a princess; one princess had been a movie queen. One President's wife is d escended from the Spanish conquistadors, another from African warriors...
...girl can be happy in life as daughter to a wealthy and titled Tartar (Kublai Khan). Unfortunately author Eugene O'Neill insisted on going beyond the circus, the soap opera and the spirit attendant to the School of Business Management, and when he does, his biting condemnation of souless materialism lacks teeth and interest. After a rather exciting first act, capped by Marco as an artless youth in the Khan's Grand Throne Room, the play's action gives way to generally boring dialogue which skillfully blends triteness and repetition...
Before this prejudiced judge and jury, Webster begins to talk. He reminds the jurors that each made the same deal Jabez made. He tells them that an American can't enjoy a souless America. He appeals to their patriotism: "Clean American air was in your lungs, and you breathed it deeply for it was free. ... He concludes: "You are Americans all, you can't be on his side. . . . Gentlemen of the jury, don't let this country go to the Devil! . . ." The jury is won over...
...Germany. Why was a reform necessary? Because the schools and Gymnasiums had separated themselves from the deepest roots of the historical German mentality and had become the bondsmen of the materialistic, industrialistic, and the technical age of Germany since 1870. They had drifted into a formless, superficial, and souless omniscience. In Germany one hears nowadays that the old school teacher won the war in 1870, and that the Gymnasium instructor lost the last...
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