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In Sunday’s New York Times David Manning White compiled a list of the Great Bard’s references to election day, or polling day. They ran something like this: “The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic.” • “Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves,” comes forth from the Merchant of Venice. From Hamlet comes “I eat the air, promise-crammed.” And from the Merry Wives of Windsor, old Bill Shakespeare brings out “The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
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Someone quotes—or misquotes, —old Governor Berkeley as saying that he hoped he never lived to see the day of a free press and free public education. There are* times when one can understand his opinion.
The trouble with most of us is that we learn to read and then get into trouble reading.
In a recent paper appeared this quote of Georgia Neese Clark, Treasurer of the United States, on what “emancipation” has done for women: “The American woman today is constantly on the defensive because of her own inadequacies and consequently she is overwhelmed because she,. does not measure up.”
In the future my reading shall be limited to the columns of Dorothy Dix and the comic page. Some of this other junk gets me all confused.
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The best and quickest way to get into trouble is to express an opinion on “as I see it.” You’re not going to see any situation with the exact vision of your neighbor—and there the trouble begins.
Take some of the reactions to the Collier story on Washington, as an example. The editor of Rappahannock News knew about the mop (or foddershock) on the top of the dome which would make the term “redheaded” undeniable, but the two words “pert” and “saucy” had never entered beneath the shock of the red mop. “W’ould some power!” Ah, well! Heavenward may go the petition that such adjectives may be the least accusing ever used in describing the said editor—though the answer to that prayer is not anticipated.
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