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...selection of pictures been left to me it would have come to include many that are now in the volume. And with what vindictive fury would it have excluded others!" But even readers who sympathize with him are likely to think that Wise & Co.'s milk was well spilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home Museum | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...observant realistic comedy of banal family life, it is probably closer to the U. S. common denominator than Our Town or Life with Father. Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Capitalism." Twenty-five hundred packed the hall built for 1,500; hundreds were turned away; people came from all over the metropolitan area and from points as distant as Concord, N. H. and Providence, R. I. The air was charged, the argument occasionally abusive, but no blood was spilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson of Thursday, June 2, 1938, immediately after the release of the report of the President's Special Committee, which had been considering this "closed" case for a year more or less, we are editorially informed that the milk is irrevocably spilt. At this late date--so runs the weighty pronouncement--it is not easy to forgive the Committee for declaring that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy should be reinstated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...attempt the sole possible reparation for demonstrated injustice and the sole possible correction of what must appear on the basis of the report to be a stubbornly misguided administrative policy.. Perhaps what is closed is the Crimson's editorial mind. The editorials themselves--but why worry? They are spilt milk now. Better duck next time! Paul P. Selvin '39, William H. Glazier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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