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Thus the Monsignor-Minister is a most interesting personage. His duties will cause him to move in three spheres, fortunately separate and distinct. In the sphere of the Pope temporal-that is to say on the streets of the Papal State, mingling with the temporal subjects of the Pope-he will move as a foreigner, a Jugoslav. In the sphere of the Pope spiritual he already has his being as a native. In the temporal sphere of King Alexander, he remains a loyal subject...
...member of each team then summarizes the disputations which favor his contentions. The audience render the verdict after quizzing the participants to their own satisfaction. By combining the best elements of the Oxford system of free discussion and the present unsatisfactory American procedure, this most recent innovation in the sphere of intercollegiate argumentation may supplant the existing scheme and provide a stimulus long desired...
...world's simplest person is now playing at the Shubert. There have been rival contenders for this position of honor in the past; Harpo Marx runs through a nifty exhibition every time he appears, but even he must make way for Dr. Wynn in the latter's special sphere. He was the "Perfect Fool" par excellence, and now he has out-perfected perfection if such is possible...
...world nothing stands still. All moves; all changes. There are no straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each...
...Golden Bowl" and the "Wings of the Dove"! All modern English writers have copied him and aped him without success. The which has made many of them damn him! After him come Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. And possibly, too, Marcel Proust, as great but in a limited sphere and another tongue...