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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first page a small facsimile Digest cover encircling the legend, "IS OUR FACE RED!" Beneath this he printed a cartoon by Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun in which a battered GOPolitician clutches a horsewhip and growls into a telephone: "Literary Digest? Lemme talk to the editor!" Surrounding text went...
...Hutchins claims to spring from first hand study of the classic authors, whose books have "the premanent truths and the common elements of men". Herein lies the danger of falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use of original writings can be just as "degrading" as reliance on corrupt text-books. For example Newton's "Principia" and Marx's "Das Kapital" are excessively difficult to understand and they are crammed with irrelevancies and theories now known to be wrong. It is as waste of time and effort to plunge through such morasses unaided. Commentaries and lectures which show the relation...
...pink-cheeked Hitler Youths saluted Count Ciano and pink-cheeked Hitler Maidens offered him posies. Then with all Munich in carnival mood there was rollicking in the torchlit streets. Initialed Entente-Count Ciano, just before taking off from Munich for Rome, joined Baron von Neurath in handing out the text of an entente which they had initialed for Italy and Germany to signalize agreement last week on these points...
...whole, however, the skill of his characterization is minimized to a great extent by the adaptation of the play. Apparently unwilling to sacrifice much of the text usually cut, Mr. Schuyler Watts, who prepared the script, has run several of the scenes together, so that there are only three acts instead of Mr. Shakespeare's five. Thus the emotional stress is carried from scene to scene with scarcely a break; and the rise and fall in pitch that is so noticeable in reading is almost completely lost. Still with all this running together of the scenes much of the original...
...those reasons were the various changes in the original text made. Usually Hamlet is cut unmercifully, but in this production much more is included than is customary, Mr. Howard emphasized...