Word: authority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among Professor Copeland's readings will be: "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...
...WHAT YOU WILL-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In this book of essays Author Huxley writes about philosophers and their asininity; idealists; fashions in love; Baudelaire; how differently Wordsworth would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable...
...local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy cousin, is mildly lionized by literary society, has a succés d'estime with his first novel. His wife dies. Author and reader leave him desolate, planning to return once again to his native Middle West; but he will go on writing; his day will come...
...subway . . . is the result of two forms of effort, the guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...
...intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal to the purely technical and somewhat Carlylian brilliance of his style as a writer, his individuals bear resemblance to queerly grouped and overstuffed animals in a museum, regarding their audience with dazed and overconfident ferocity. But if the characters are not alive, Author Bolitho's writing does live, very noisily indeed. A journalist, 39, he is a regular colyumist on the New York World, a resident of Southern France, the author also of Leviathan and Murder for Profit...