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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What would Harvard do without the National Student League? Alone and bravely, representing the unknown, undiscovered, and unconscious will of the majority of Harvard students, the league defends our university against the insidious Fascist propaganda which is attacking it on all sides, and endangering liberty and freedom of speech...
...obvious frauds--possess a perfection of their own, which the best modernist critics, at any rate, are gravely anxious to explain and to applaud. So one must really be cautious in his demolition; Picasso, for example, would not be Picasso if he were not privy to certain secrets unknown by Giotto. The attention paid to him is only superficially due to a "justifiable reaction from the ideas of the XIXth century, and above all a reaction from the camera." Understanding of Picasso is like understanding of the Renaissance. Neither must be separated from the nexus of relations which...
...gave way to the metal-wielding Gauls. They buried or cremated their dead and the stones evidently served some ritual or memorial purpose. Last month Professor Andre Guenin, cataloguing Brittany's megaliths, took the trouble to climb a 100-ft. butte ten miles from Carnac, found an unknown group of monuments including an elliptical cromlech and five dolmens, three of them almost perfectly preserved. One immense dolmen consisted of 19 pillars covered by five table stones. Professor Guenin found traces of a campsite, started digging for human remains...
...scribbles LONG FLAYS NEW DEAL, or MILLIONS STARVE IN UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...
What this country needs is a counter-falter and murderer, a perfect criminal, secret, unscrupulous, ruthless, yet with high moral purpose. Given this un-catchable, unknown Robin Hood, America's problems of recovery, reform, and revolution would be solved...