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Truly as one person would have it, the radio and the movies and perhaps the blondes, have driven out debating. Until another passing whim shall again seize the undergraduate and debating shall again become the fad of the cream of Brown men, nothing can be done about it. All we can do is sit back on our haunches and howell at the top of lungs the days tha used...
...Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...
...lenient and even worshipful to Winslow Homer, Mr. Cahill at least gives good reasons for his preferonech, and he never lets the historical and nocini nilliett get out of night; he is obviously a nationalist who believes in an indigenous American art, not subservient to European tradition or contemporary whim, but integrated with the actualities of the society in which it is conceived. Like everybody else nowadays, Mr. Cahill sees through the "fatal facility" of Sargent; on the other hand he is not intinridated by the pretensions of modernism. "There is no health in introspection," he wisely says; "the cultivation...
Still more painful is another aspect of the Dartmouth murals. The recklessness that allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never occured to university officials that perhaps they would some day want to tear down the library to make way for a large power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive...
...Russia's Constitution provides that the Soviet Congress meet every year. Actually it is convened at the whim of the Dictatorship, last...