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The boys took advantage of the few moments alone with the scientist to give him the complete story of their adventure in the tunnel, after which they pledged him to secrecy. "It's one thing to tell people a ghost is a fake," Rick explained. "It's another to dramatize it. I'm working on an idea that may do it, but only if we keep quiet and make our plans carefully."
He teased on as they followed the traeger with their baggage out of the station; and in the omnibus on the way to their hotel, he recurred to the loss they had suffered in the baroness's failure to dramatize her nobility effectually. "After all, perhaps she was as much disappointed in us. I don't suppose we looked any more like democrats than she looked like an aristocrat."
The Russo-Japanese War was thus rather the occasion than the cause of the wave of exultant self-confidence which swept over Asia and Africa in the year 1904. But it did dramatize and clarify ideas that had been germinating half-unconsciously in millions of Oriental minds, and was thus the sign manual of the whole nexus of forces making for a revivified Orient.
Mythology also gave expression to the religious ideas of the time and we find that the most important myths, dramatically produced at the religious festivals, were sun myths. The annual festivities and mysteries will be discussed together because both were intended to dramatize the same beliefs. Both were under priestly control and so were national institutions.
It is true, there were among my adversaries some persons under obligations to me, some persons who were full of enthusiasm at my first manner, and who would have made wry faces enough, had I published their flattering letters to me, other persons, to whom I had rendered pecuniary services, others, again, who had come to me with hat in hand and supple knees, to beg my permission to allow them to dramatize my novels.
While they had no authority and could do little of significance, the Congress did dramatize to the world the plight of the subject peoples of Africa. Urban Riots In spite of the fact that Negroes were fighting overseas to defend their country, racial tensions continued at home.
We are setting to work a national committee of a hundred thousand men, to unearth in America, advertise, make the common property of everybody the men who dramatize, who make neighborly and matter-of-fact the beliefs a great people will perish if they do not believe. We are drawing in the next few months in America the plans and specifications for a great nation and a new world.
How would we plan to dramatize this poem? In answering this question, we must consider how many persons are needed, what arrangement of rooms and doors, etc., will be fitting; are the last three stanzas to be spoken? etc. It seems that here is a family in which an hour is set aside for play. What kind of home must that be? Was this the custom each day? Or did it happen only once?
This method consists in first becoming aware of a limitation, and then in forcing ourselves to dramatize the experience that would be ours if the limitation did not affect us. We then discover in ourselves a power for transcending the limitation, and presently we come to live in the new mode as easily as in the old. Thought, conscious of its own limitations, leads to the New Freedom.
The most important part of the next President's platform is going to be, in the eyes of the people, his character, his temperament, the way his personal traits and habits dramatize what he says, the way he lives what he believes. The American people may not be shrewd about seers, or about historians or philosophers, but they are very likely any minute to be deep about people.
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