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...titles with "Symphonic Pastorale" are the most gratifying in a long while. One of Gide's English translators, Justin O'Brien, is credited with writing them. The omnipresent Herman Weinberg is also credited with an "American adaptation." This should please Meneken, but it puzzles me, and it might Mr. O'Brien, who is a professor at Columbia...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Symphonie Pastorale | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

...Mary Bethune, negress, founder of the Bethune Cookman College, which has four hundred colored students, ands conditions of so sanguine an aspect that she predicts, "Christian education will wipe out practically all race difficulties in the South." Although a Meneken might object to the qualification of the education, all will agree that such a forecast is most encouraging. The continued payment of the running expenses of this unendowed college, which amount to about $80,000 annually also shows that there is more than thought in the new attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH | 11/3/1926 | See Source »

...Heigh ho" said Mr. Meneken, "So it's 'White Collars' tonight. Shall we razz it good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINEMA THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER COMEDY | 1/20/1926 | See Source »

...oracle can have its tongue in its cheek, as Croesus discovered. Indeed, the sincerity of the editor of the jade journal for jaded tastes has long been a moot question. To assume the clear of a Machiavelli in serious, sane, and democratic America is to insure some notoriety. Mr. Meneken often prefer being exactly notorious to being notoriously exact. Perhaps the need of American politics is a manual of malfeasance, of the psychology of political pragmatism, perhaps not. For, although the Machiavellian side of political theory will always remain the abode of the cynic in politics and, therefore, continue always...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENCKEN'S MENTAL MARIBOU'S | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...Friedrich Nietzsche," by H. L. Meneken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Additions to Union Library | 3/31/1908 | See Source »

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