Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hubbard doesn't object to professionalization as such. "The only thing which is really wrong is that football is a professional business which pretends to be amateur," he admits. His solution is open subsidization of players. "Some of the money, at least, would go where it ought to go--to the men who earn it," he concludes...
...have no respect for our own tradition. Cultural life today is a unity, although every country has her own tasks to fulfill. We need to have the courage to become conscious of ourselves; then we are able to form a tradition, necessary for every epoch. The most important thing is for those who govern to know what is happening, for them to see the unity of the past and future--the others will see it through them. We need a nucleus of the intellectual and spiritual elite. If we can produce this at Harvard, for instance, we can help...
...Trouble With Tigers does one good thing: it settles the argument about what Saroyan's writing is all about. "I have written one word," he announces, "God." Altogether he intends to write three. The second will be "Is." The third: "Love." The announcement of this program makes dawning sense, for if Saroyan appears in his stories in any consistent role, it is as a sort of humanist jumping jack, waiting only until he has written a few more Books of Saroyan to leap forward as a U. S. prophet...
...narrative; even achieves some of the massive tediouness of the Russian novelists. But where the Russians succeeded best-in portraying the Russian peasantry who shaped the character of the Revolution-Author Hutchinson fails: the brilliant Russian surface of Testament cracks open to reveal dim, confused sketches of the real thing, a novel that at the core is English after...
...time vaudeville, in putting on the annual show for his lodge. After assembling a collection of moth-eaten variety artists, one-time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls and a little phony spiritualism, Tropp is brought to terms and the show goes...