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...Trend" stories which will give the background of spot news about Harvard science so that it "means something" to the lay reader will appear soon through the efforts of the newly-formed Public Relations Committee of the Asociation of Harvard Scientists, the committee chairman, Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy announced...
...book, the first of which is to give the atmospheric background of the War, both in the United States, and in the field of military operations; and the second to give an interesting account of the actual operations and personalities of the War. The first six chapters give the reader a fairly compelling description of the temper of the period preceding the conflict, employing the well-worn system of correlating diverse events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard...
There are too many brief reviews. I feel it would be better for the reader, at least, if there were only one or two, with the reviewer given space to move around in and to argue his points. Harry Brown is confused by T. S. Eliot's last play, and waits for elucidation by "such people as Mr. Ransom or Mr. Tate or Mr. Blackmur...
...amiable American whom she met on a merry-go-round, a middle-aged Londoner with 152 pairs of red socks, who is mesmerized so completely that even Lisbeth cannot break the spell she casts over him. Mostly pleasant nonsense, Harlequin House is sometimes so addled that a reader is diverted by wondering how Author Sharp can unscramble her puzzle. He finds that she fits it together so neatly that nothing is lacking but a point...
Between chapters Author Steinbeck speaks directly to the reader in panoramic essays on the social significance of the Oakies' story. Burning tracts in themselves, they are not a successful fiction experiment. In them a "social awareness" outruns artistic skill. Steinbeck is a writer, still, of great promise. But this novel's big audience of readers will likely find in it one of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year...