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...superlatives, no emotionalism but by the simple, unexpected arrangement of the facts, he drives home a moral with unusual force. He doesn't set forth an argument or a conclusion but the absurdity of the whole airmail situation hits you between the eyes and you get a thrill down your spine...
Turning to the undergraduates at the ceremony, President Eliot told them, "When you feel a true admiration for a teacher, a glow of enthusiasm for work, a thrill of pleasure at some excellent saying, give it expression. Do not be ashamed of these emotions. The best way to fight boyishness is to foster scholarship and manliness...
...times like these there are people who must steal in order to live, and there are always many hardened criminals for whom there is no remedy but jail. Nothing can be done about these. But when there are young men and boys who commit horrible crimes "just for the thrill," much can, and should be done. Movies and novels have portrayed the criminal as a romantic figure, with the result that there is a tendency to admire and even envy him instead of despising him. It is this tendency which is responsible for many of our worst crimes...
Keith Boston--"Coming Out Party." Hollywood's idea of debutantes should thrill the proletariat and amuse the initiated. Dunster House Beacon Street, and Chelsea will like it for strangely differing reasons...
Keith Boston--"Coming Out Party." Holly wood's idea of debutantes should thrill the proletariat and amuse the initiated. Dunster House, Beacon Street, and Chelsea will like it for strangely differing reasons...