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Worried by war debts, harassed by war threats, France has followed the wisp of imperialism to bankruptcy. With an unbalanced budget and a hopelessly divided chamber of deputies, she has still to meet both foreign and domestic obligations. In contrast to this predieament. Germany, fat and complacent, has light taxes, a surplus in the treasury, and a stalde currency. It does not matter if moralists point out that she gained this position by repudiating her internal debis through inflation. The policy has been successful, therefore, according to the game of nations, it is justified...
...Term for an ass that keeps plodding because a wisp of hay which he never gets is held before his nose...
...achieved by the theatre and to accomplish his purpose Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil...
Then there is the interior of the theatre itself--calculated to dazzle innocent people who do not know that the modern moving picture house is rather a place to try out trick lighting effects and vague will-o-the-wisp lights in the aisles than to display the art of the cinema...
...abysmal moroseness, now making "his sardonic, dry quips, his double-tongued chirpings, jumping this way and that like crickets in a hot hayfield," always sniffing and listening around metaphysical corners for God. John Cowper Powys now and again casts his sterile chill. And there are other Powyses?a wisp of a mother, a "lovely seagull" sister, a rustic brother who dwells in "the divine oblivion of cider and ditch-digging, of making bulls leap cows, and bringing foals into the world...