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...Sainte-Beuve: "Criticism consists in saying whatever comes into one's head. That is all there is to it." Dispassionate observers, in spite of friendship, was just what the Goncourts were. Of their great friend Flaubert they report: "He works ten hours a day but is a great waster of time, forgetting himself in things he picks up to read, and constantly running away from the book he is writing. He hardly ever warms to his work before five in the evening, although he sits down invariably at noon . . . a very honest nature . . . [but] still never perfectly sincere...
...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
...along beautifully till the Chief began to pat her on the back and his wife to bully her. But then young Otto came along again, still yearning. They were married in style. Tycoon Hellenberg, no snob, approved of his daughter-in-law, despised his attractive son as a shiftless waster. Susanne did her best to get Otto interested in business and succeeded fairly well, but she could not keep him from cheating. Finally she left him, went back to the bakery to live. There she thought it all out, came to the conclusion that Tycoon Hellenberg was right about...
...their work except through marks. The answer is that students in college who must be kept there by policing had better leave. If a student wants to know how he is getting on, there are plenty of ways of testing him. If the college wants to dismiss a waster, there are plenty of ways of convicting him. Using marks in courses for discipline; promotion, rank lists, prizes, and graduation is simply an administrative convenience which obscures the real business of education--actual individual progress in learning--and centers attention in the wrong place. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...Board's wheat and cotton stabilization operations. Curious Senators poked roughly into facts and figures which Farm Boarders had long feared would damage their agency's economic prestige. What was disclosed served to intensify the industrial clamor for the Board to be abolished as a futile waster of public funds. Lobbyists for farm organizations were no less loud in using the same disclosures to argue for its wholesale revamping...