Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNDER FORTY-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). Brief collection of six quiet Prose pieces ranging from an essay on Thomas Mann to a memoir of Sarah Orne Jewett, including a few personal recollections by the most reticent of contemporary novelists. The title means that the book "will not interest persons under 40 years of age." VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES-Stanton...
Lorimer Robey '38 won the first prize in an essay competition held Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Classical Club. His essay was entitled, "The Doctrine of the Self and Saint Augustine and Descartes." Second prize winner was Gordon M. Messing '38 with "Literary Anti-Semitism at Rome...
Sixty-four Grosz drawings and a hand-colored lithograph were presented to a very select public by svelte Publisher Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press in an edition of 280 numbered copies, printed on hand-moulded paper, bound in a loose box, introduced by a little essay by myopic Novelist John Dos Passos, and priced at $50. Among the best drawings...
Less impressive than Middleton's recitative were: a Scottish Suite by Adolph Deutsch, Whiteman's short, bespectacled chief arranger; the now familiar cacophonies of Ferde Grofé's Tabloid; Deutsch's Essay on Waltzes wherein the hybrid orchestra pieced together remnants of Beethoven, Gounod, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, George Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz...
ORIGINALLY written for those outside the trade, this little "attempt at a rationale of book-typography" has reached a position of respect among eminent practicing printers. In 29 pages Mr. Morison lays down the laws of typography with consummate skill. For the layman the chief delight of his essay is in its effective demolition of the school of so-called "fine printing" Mr. Morison fulminates so beautifully against tricky type-fonts, odd proportions of type and page, misplaced color and the rough edges of handmade paper that it is reasonable to assume any journeyman reader of his remarks will think...