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Modern readers gauge Thoreau's genius by the qualities his contemporaries disliked. His eccentricities, prickliness, perversities, were in fact the Yankee thorns that protected him against the embrace of the Transcendentalists, the fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of...
I greatly appreciate TIME, but I do not like to see the picture of Brauchitsch on the cover of the issue dated Sept. 25th. A small picture in a section of TIME on crime would be more appropriate, after what the Germans have been doing in Poland. Abhor that which...
In the letter to Seiberling, dated September 6, Baker stated that although he had already enlisted, he would not be stationed for another three weeks and that, in the meantime, he was helping his family to gas-proof their home in Paris.
Among the manuscripts in the gift are two fine contemporary copies of the English "Treatise of the Navy" by John Mountgomery, one dated 1574, and the other 1589. The former was especially transcribed for Henry Perey, the "Wizard" Earl of Northumberland, who served against the Armada.
Lully: Orchestral Excerpts from the Operas "Prosperine," "Atys," "Amadis," "Thesee" (Symphony orchestra conducted by Maurice Cauchie; Columbia: 4 sides). Father of French opera was Jean Baptiste Lully, who tailored stage performances for paunchy Louis XIV. Lully's operas are now as dated as snuff and ruffles. But the sunny...