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Show WHAT MIRO READ AT SCHOOL Youngster's Initintion Into Culturt Was Made "Almost a Re. ligious Mystery." At school Miro was early impr0sSP(1 with the vast dignity of the literary works and names he- was compelled to learn. Shakespeare and Goethe and Dante lifted their plaster heads frown, ingly above the teacher's as they perch-ed perch-ed on shelves about the room. Much was said of the greatness of literature. But the art of phonetics and the complications com-plications of grammar swamped Mjr,'s early school years. It was not until h reached the high school that literature began really to assume that sacreilncsq which he had heretofore felt only for holy Scripture, Randolph Bourne writes in Yale Review. Ilis initiation into culture was made almost a religious mystery by the conscientious nn, harassed teacher. As the "Dendwood Boys" and "David Ilanim" slipped away from Jliro's soul in the presence of Milton's "Comus," and Burke "On Conciliation" a cultural devoutness was engendered in him that never really died. At first it did not take Miro beyond the stage whore yimr conscience is strong enough to make 7011 uncomfortable, but not stron; enough to make you do anything about It. Mira did not actually become an omnivorous reader of great honks. Put he was filled with a rich grief that the millions pursued cheap and vulgar Action Ac-tion instead of the best that has been thought and said In the world. Miro Indiscriminately bought cheap editions of the English o'assics and read thero with a certain patient iinconiprehei.il. Ingness. |