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...Russian Ballet, then, is a rotted hulk of the great pre-war ballet of Serge Diaghilev. It is too clogged with unnaturalness to have very much meaning today. For one thing, its stories are mostly mythological or fanciful, handled as though in a complete vacuum, with not the slightest trace of anything to link them with real life. The music, too, is defective in that it is addicted to effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that...
...proclaim the need for general courses in medieval and modern history. These would not be so elementary as a Freshman course, nor so comprehensive as a graduate course, but they would cut across national boundaries and offer a comparative picture of whole periods. They would allow the student to trace the main cultural, political, and intellectual developments of these two periods, and specialize on any one country from that broad base. He would have to spend far less tutorial time plugging up gaps in his coverage, and would find himself free to do more work on historical interpretation and original...
...Castle) became interested in the historical evolution of socialism some years ago, has had the present book in mind for six years. To the Finland Station is a study of the slow development of socialist ideas. His purpose is to explore the origins of socialist thought, to trace its tortuous course up to the time it became a political power. He describes this development in terms of the men who transformed it, interlacing a biography of ideas with the biography of the men who held them...
...Evans, proposed to market the bedspreads for Catherine in department stores. John Wanamaker bought half-a-dozen, then contracted for the entire production for five years. Though she could make two bedspreads a day, Catherine's two hands could not keep up with the demand. She began to trace her designs on cloth, carry the marked cloth and a hank of yarn around to neighboring farm wives who would do the "tufting" for so much per spread. Every few days she would set out in a mule cart to run the circuit of her tufters...
...Gazette offices off Commercial, spoke to his neighbors, squared off for work before a desk that shed old letters, mementos, galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed on his round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner that in Emporia comes at noon. After dinner he stretched out on his double mahogany bed that...