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...Washington, where the Bolivian uprising came as a surprise, the State Department freely confessed that it was the most welcome revolution in years. If the new regime continues stable, the U.S. will doubtless recognize it shortly...
Thomas Hardy never set foot on U.S. soil, doubtless never dreamed of a special immortality in the state of Maine. But Colby College, in Waterville, Me., now boasts one of the world's foremost Hardy libraries. Organizer of the collection is Carl J. Weber, 52, Roberts Professor of English 'Literature at Colby. For years Dr. Weber has been exploring the Hardy field, until he probably knows more of its little secrets than the great British poet-novelist himself ever knew...
...Doubtless a few special cases, including geniuses and college sophomores, enjoy the process; writers as a group have to drive themselves to it. As a group they have always been spiritual hypochondriacs, professional sufferers who manage -(frequently) to make a living out of their suffering. No one knows this better than Robert van Gelder, editor of the New York Times Book Review, who has interviewed dozens of authors during the past few years. About 90 of his interviews are now collected in Writers and Writing. Sample testimony...
...limp-lily brand of Irish-Oxonian genius has been paid many times over, which is not necessarily to say overpaid. In the years since his death in 1900 (from cerebral meningitis, probably complicated by syphilis), he has become more & more renowned-a state of affairs which he would doubtless find amusing...
...Broadway last week, He seemed a good deal less freighted with inner meanings. It seemed, in fact, what it doubtless always was-a piece of theater, of emotional bravura, of florid fiddling. Behind its clown's make-up there was nothing much of a face. Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking. For half the evening, indeed-while its melodrama seemed crouching to spring-He had a jittery tension, a rataplan rhythm, a glare of circus lights and blare of circus music, that were theatrically vivid. Then things got fuzzy and highflown, and the melodrama...