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With Mr. Sempack looming near, Philip turns socialist, improves his diction and spelling, begins writing adult ("real") letters to Cynthia, reporting the strike and his own evolution from an amiable parasite into a social thinker. Cynthia writes back and in addition keeps a 'journal. The reader is denied, or spared, very little that they think or feel, with the result that the World State, though it must be nearer with potent young Philip on its side, remains vague in outline and seems to belong only to the Rylands', Mr. Sempack and Author Wells...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
Clarence Darrow, criminal lawyer, materialistic philosopher, and radical thinker, will speak in the Paine Concert Hall at 4:30 o'clock today on "Capital Punishment." The address is being given under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks. House Association, and takes the place of a lecture which was scheduled last December, and which Mr. Darrow was forced to cancel...
Clarence Darrow criminal lawyer and materialist thinker will treat "Capital Punishment" in his speech at Phillips Brooks House on Friday at 4.30 o'clock. The veteran of the Chicago criminal courts has long been known as the holder of radical theories on the subject, and the list of felons whom he has saved from the death penalty is a long...
...judgment of the angels and the sentence of the saints" he was anathematized, execrated, cursed, cast out and cut off by the exiled people of Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling...