Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strangers in the Land-E. B. Ashton -Scribner ($2.50). A competent report on nervous habits of a fast set in pre-Hitler Bavaria, centring on a German-Jewish lawyer and his shaky romance with a U. S. tourist...
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
...Paris, and on the habits of those who live there. Well aware that, thanks to war, most of what he tells of will never be the same again, Koeves subtitles his volume "A European Testament." In a modest and genuine way, it is. It is also what it set out to be: a good book about travel, of which the chief regret is, that with so sharp a focus drawn on the theory of travel, the lens is trained so little on its practice...
Claiming to be an alumnus of the School of Dard Knocks who is in the dark about the meaning of the "academic freedom" which Phi Beta Kappa has set out to protect, Thomas Dorgan, former member of the State Legislature, calls on the learned fraternity for an explanation in a letter to Paul Olum, PBK First Marshal...
...set for whatever the Lord may send us," Rogers B. Johnson '17, superintendent of the maintenance division, declared last night after finishing his preparations for the annual campaign to keep the University's seven miles of driveways and 15 1/2 miles of sidewalks clear this winter...