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...limp and resigned like a prone eggshell) Yes, I will. My God, why must you men wreak this savage destruction...
...principle of Mr. Ickes' plan is a disastrous principle; happily it will only be applied in Chopinesque diminuendo, and can wreak no harm. It may even be hooted away before the dreary game of platting has begun, so that the 200 need never set out through the mud. But within the lineaments of this small gimcrack may be discerned what is a very real and very large deficiency in the National Recovery Administration--its distressing lack of coordination, its undeniable muscular ague. Banking recovery has lagged so far behind industrial stimulus as to produce a dangerous gap in credit...
...loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...
...golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (???is) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...great hope as regards the military situation," the Admiral commented, "lies in the fact that warring powers such as the United States and great Britain could wreak unbearable damage on each other's commerce. People are beginning to see their mutual dependence. The freedom of the seas means the freedom of neutrals to charge from 300 to 2000 percent extra freight for carrying supplies to your enemy, and will never be observed in war, spiritual bonds notwithstanding...