The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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LATE at night I stood outside the Tauride Palace in Petrograd , which had become the centre of the revolution . No one was admitted through the great gates without a pass . I sought a place about midway between the gates , and , when no ...
LATE at night I stood outside the Tauride Palace in Petrograd , which had become the centre of the revolution . No one was admitted through the great gates without a pass . I sought a place about midway between the gates , and , when no ...
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... but at this present moment we have so much more of being in business , and move so much faster by motor , that it seems that our existence in God must have been pre- natal , or might become possibly a post- mortem affair .
... but at this present moment we have so much more of being in business , and move so much faster by motor , that it seems that our existence in God must have been pre- natal , or might become possibly a post- mortem affair .
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The college has become a business institution ; even the college of liberal arts is now a pre - pedagogical , pre - medical , pre - legal , or some other pre - practical vocational school . Students still come to college to serve ...
The college has become a business institution ; even the college of liberal arts is now a pre - pedagogical , pre - medical , pre - legal , or some other pre - practical vocational school . Students still come to college to serve ...
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It is only when you stare into their tearful or triumph- ant faces , made colossal , that they all become alike . It may be that make- up has something to do with it . But the fault is there . The men are nearly as bad , but not quite .
It is only when you stare into their tearful or triumph- ant faces , made colossal , that they all become alike . It may be that make- up has something to do with it . But the fault is there . The men are nearly as bad , but not quite .
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It can only go a little further all the time , and become a little more so . But the movie drama has a more seri- ous and varied future than that . It is important . It must chuck — it ought to chuck the Aristotelian unities overboard .
It can only go a little further all the time , and become a little more so . But the movie drama has a more seri- ous and varied future than that . It is important . It must chuck — it ought to chuck the Aristotelian unities overboard .
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