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...accustomed is everybody to thinking of Pirandello as a dramatist that his publishers on the jacket of this book have inscribed: "This is a book of fiction." It is a twelve-story selection from a projected 24-volume skyscraper entitled Stories for the Year Round. Like the Thousand & One Nights, like mottoes on church calendars, there will be Pirandello tales for every day of the year, every mood, every occasion...
...DESIRE-Robert Herrick -Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). On the jacket of The End of Desire Publishers Farrar & Rinehart have blurbed the rather rhetorical question: "Whence arises the sudden passion of a Man for a Woman?" You may be surprised to discover that this is a quotation from the late great Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche himself. But you will be more surprised that it takes Author Herrick's hero 371 pages to find the answer. Psychiatrist Redfield met Abnormal-Psychology Expert Massey at a murder trial. Redfield was a man; Massey a woman; both were middle-aged (in fact, grandparents). They fell...
President Hoover is well known to dislike almost all Frenchmen. He and Premier Laval had high words which they called "free and frank." Smoking U. S. cigarets at the furious rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging...
Contrary to the blurb on its jacket, contrary to its title, Chicago: A Portrait is in a sense also a history. But it is a history piece by piece, park by park, suburb by suburb, a jumpy historical travelog rather than a history of the city as a whole...
...strait-jacket a highly intelligent school student is to commit a crime against education: to allow his liberty of study, (not to be confused with freedom from work), is to placate the gods of Wisdom and Learning. It is not hard to see which of the two courses of action Yale should pursue. --Yale Daily News