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IT is fitting to review together the recent volumes of verse by Cummings and Kirstein. Both are Harvard men (Cummings graduated in 1915, and Kirstein in 1930), and both names connote, at least in Philistia, the no plus ultra of that kind of modern literature which baffles the plain man...
Much more extraordinary than the West formula has been its success. Dubious Paramount executives two years ago allowed her a contract for a percentage of her pictures' profits as well as a salary. When her first pictures were an enormous hit, Hollywood labeled her a fad, but instead of...
Richard Hieck was a mathematics student at a German university. Poor, ungainly, shyly incoherent, he was a good mathematician and ambitious to be a great one. So intent was he on the higher nature of his beloved science that it seemed right to him to be contemptuous of the easy...
For sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and...
Such a catastrophe, however, would be a purely local one confined to the solar system. Philosophizing cosmologists are not much concerned with the fate of a trivial cluster of peewee planets. When they speak of The End of the World," they mean the death of the whole Universe. The Universe...