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...bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch was made a Book Society choice and earned him about ?700. In 1938 came Castle Corner, a long, slow-paced novel of Anglo-Irish life, which some critics praised warmly. But it sold less than 3,000 copies...
...Center. Until they had a chance to study her bright colors and billowing lines, he brushed off photographers eager to take careful pictures. "It's enough for now," he chuckled, "to say that she is the prototype of a Neapolitan beauty-florid, fleshy, luscious. In short, what you Anglo-Saxons would call a girl with sex appeal...
Arguing the affirmative will be Bartley Crum, a New York lawyer who was a member of the Anglo American Committee on Inquiry of Palestine and is the former owner of PM newspaper, and Rev. Karl Baehr, executive secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee. They are replacing Israeli Ambassador Aubrey S. Eben who cancelled his engagement...
Edgar F. Shannon, assistant professor of English and former Rhodes Scholar, told a Lamont Forum Room audience last night that the Rhodes awards are a means of fostering the Anglo-Saxon world community...
...lushness and artifice> Spanish precision and plainness have come through. Detail, passivity, indifference, a stoical acceptance of life, patience, an ironical resignation to the peculiar ways of human beings are its Spanish traits. Santayana's psychological powers are hardly less illuminating in his long essays on the Anglo-Saxon and the American characters; he had already lit up the follies of the German mind in his work on Egotism in German Philosophy, a work much consulted during the war against Hitler...