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The remainder of the magazine is given over to impressionistic book reviews mainly of "avant garde" literature. Eric Larrabee's excellent review of Robert Frost's new book stresses the fact that we must now turn away from the post-war despair literature of the last twenty years. This May...
The wowser is human. The Australian slang dictionary defines him (or her) as "a puritanical enthusiast, a bluestocking, a drab-souled Philistine haunted by the mockery of others." What the U.S. soldiers and their Empire mates have to say about him would burn holes in a postman's sack...
HAUNTED LADY-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nurse Adams is deputized by a police commissioner to watch over a wealthy widow whose bedroom is inexplicably visited by bats and rats. Outwitted momentarily by a clever murderer, Nurse Adams finally forces a confession. A clean-cut, quick-stepping yarn, minus...
As radio businessmen, the broadcasters had been haunted all along by a spectre of the Government "taking over" radio. This made them touchy. As short-wave professionals, they had been skeptical of the quality of material sent to them by OCI and OCIAA. In some cases their skepticism was justified...
Romain Rolland called Mahler "an egoist who feels with sincerity," and it is probably his unmistakable earnestness and depth of feeling rather than surface skill that will keep him from becoming a fantastic museum-piece. He was most effective in lyrical passages where his braggadocio and forced climaxes could give...