Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neighborhood Players made more uncommercial by a considerable supply of inept acting. The play itself is a rigorous psychological study of four Irish people. The wife loves the husband's friend; the husband has his own affinity. Yet they love each other and sit down to have the whole thing out. Most humans would have grabbed each other and tired of the affair before Joyce's characters stop talking about it. They deal with passion in paragraphs and prefaces. No doubt a lot that they say might be said, unheard, inside of any of us under similar circumstances...
...religious and nationalistic sentiments of the people, offered to the Armenians the flower of Liberty, Independence, and certain Turkish territories. They revolted, Practically the same offer was made to the people of Mesopotamia--what have they now? Almost 100,000 British in their country. We pity them. The same thing happened to the Syrians. Instead of the promised liberty and so forth, they have a host of Frenchmen. It is Lloyd George's imperialistic policies that are responsible for much of the blood that was shed. It was he who was the great massacrer...
...Perhaps these notices are but a hoax; perhaps no liquor will be served. But the thing suggests what I had hoped was a vanishing evil,--a lot of maudlin, loud-voiced and excited 'good fellers,' flushed and silly and unmanly, who next day will feel very much ashamed...
This is a different thing altogether from American participation in the reparation conferences, even though Owen Young did originate the Dawes Plan. Germany is not a member of the League of Nations, and it may be for this reason that Rumania is resorting to American arbitration. This will naturally not be the last time America is called on for similar services, since the reasons behind Rumania's action will hold for other nations...
Over population is the cause of so many evils that reducing the number of births among any class would seem a good thing, were it not for the consideration that it is the most intelligent class which is restricting itself while the less intelligent classes go on increasing. This is the serious problem. A common sense solution is to make the facts of birth control as easily accessible to the less fortunate as to the more fortunate members of society. The problem will then adjust itself. Most large families, it is safe to say, are monuments, not to a colossal...