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Walk Like a Mortal is the story of ten quietly crucial months, some year in the '20s, in the life of 17-year-old Gabe Mackenzie. It gains no little through a fact sparsely precedented in U. S. fictional adolescence : that its hero is neither a Harold Teen, a neuraesthete, nor a tragicomic boob, but merely an intelligent, quite normal high school student...
...book are glowing accounts of some of the thousands of men who were "Steinached" during the roaring '20s. They changed, says Steinach, from feeble, parched, dribbling drones to men of vigorous bloom who threw away their glasses, shaved twice a day, "dragged loads up to 220 lbs.," even indulged in such youthful follies as "buying land in Florida...
...Nature of God for Dr. Roberts-were typical of the series. The Yale Christian Conference is neither a debate nor a revival, but a sober discussion for a mature audience. Its recent course has been cheering to churchmen searchingfor signs of a U. S. religious revival. In the '20s, attendance dwindled: the conferences were abandoned when only 150 people turned out to hear Sherwood Eddy in 1926. When they were begun again last year, 800 went to hear Dr. George Arthur Buttrick. Last week's opener, despite the fact that it took place on a winter Sunday, drew...
Only Yesterday was practically alone in its field at the time it appeared. (Not until 1935 did Mark Sullivan add his record of the '20s to the rich documentary fruitcake of Our Times.) Since Yesterday, however, is published after America in Midpassage by Charles and Mary Beard (TIME, May 22) and is in almost every way a slighter job. Yet Mr. Allen, although he has neither the historical grasp nor the mordant style of the Beards, has the advantage of doing his job in 346 pages to the Beards' 949. His story embraces neatly the scary and screwy...
...mining and mining for carpentry. As times got harder in the Valley, Huw's brothers and sisters scattered to the dominions, to the U. S., to Germany. Only the broken remnants of the family stayed on. It came to its worst when Huw was in his 20s, in an addled, furious, revolutionary strike with which none of the Morgans could hold. The strikers threatened to flood the pits, Huw's father, inspecting them, was crushed to death. There, Morgan breaks off and makes...