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...more than one occasion, TIME has furnished me with information which I was unable to procure from any other source and so I am asking you to print the name of the author of this most excellent piece of Democratic thunder and the occasion on which it was used...
...World and the Flesh treats the Russian revolution in a new manner for the cinema, using it as the material for blood & thunder romance in the style of Rafael Sabatini. It is a well directed and adequately authentic picture, damaged mainly by prolixity of plot and by reverberations of George Bancroft's guffaw. His laughter is of a sort to suggest that he has just heard a joke which he does not understand...
Three years before Ludwig van Beethoven shook his great fist at the thunder & lightning raging outside his window and fell back dead on his bed, his Ninth (last) Symphony was given its first performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes...
...sunlight of the last hour. Soon Harvard will be but the tavern where once a pleasant night was spent in a long journey. The world that lies before us is big with ruin for it has been the drill ground of feet of clay. On our horizon there is thunder as well as dawn. But the past day has been fair...
...nine, and all arrive at unity through the ability of Professor Merriman. There is the calm precision of Professor Tucker as he unravels the skein of English literature. There is Mr. De Vote reducing the sophomore to a sentimental pot pourri with his tolerant cynicism. There is the deep thunder of Professor Holcombe, inevitable and inviolate as the Monroe Doctrine, settling down over the Carribean. There is the deep rapture and breath taking enthusiasm of Professor McIlwain which sweeps the stupidity of Stephen and of the class into brighter realms. There is Edgell playing like the eternal fountains...