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Last week the New York Times gave a synopsis of itself. There was no strut about it, no Watch-Us-Grow or Whoop-Er-Up-For-Ochs. "Thirty Years of the Times" the editorial was called...
...Young Person in Pink" is not the most delightful device the Copley players have used to assist them in their two hour strut upon the stage of local stock. It is as obvious that they have too little here with which to work as it was that they had too much in "Outward Bound". The policy of producing plays hitherto unproduced in America is excellent when the plays are good. But as the Harvard Dramatic Club has proved, they are sometimes far from good. "The Young Person in Pink" is certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best...
...Senate without debate, will seek to discover whether the department of Justice used reasonable diligence in pursuing the facts. The situation is a double-barrelled gun in Senator Walsh's hands. If the Attorney-General was negligent, the Democrats have one more example of Republican corruption to strut before the people; if the case could not be prepared in a year, the Montana Senator will get the credit for proving the Statute of Limitations an unwise law. Whichever barrel of the gun goes off. Senator Walsh will kill a political bird...
...farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all," said Emerson. "Man is priest and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier..... The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, a good finger, a neck, a stomach an elbow (he might have added a head), but never a man. Man is this metamorphosed into a thing, into many things . . . . In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when...
...public that it is not necessary to pay eight dollars for a seat in order to attend an opera. For half that sum, or a quarter of it, one can share in a holiday that casts no dishonor upon a dinner coat, can offer flowers and shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima, was compelled to repeat Puccini's ringing lacrimosities...