Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story. As readers hack their way through the thorny pages of Finnegans Wake, they become aware of certain figures and phrases that recur frequently-H. C. Earwicker, Anna Livia, Maggie, Guinness, Phoenix Park, the River Liffey that curves through Dublin. Tracing these characters and places as they bob in and out of apparently unrelated words and sentences, Critic Edmund Wilson has worked out the most intelligible interpretation of the book, supported by Joyce's own statement that, as Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape...
...Dali has recorded is as specialized as it is vivid. Once a boy wonder at copying Vermeer and Leonardo, he discovered by self-analysis in Paris that he had a persecution complex (paranoia). His oil technique remains that of a brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that he repeats himself...
...urge the administration to take appropriate action against the responsible persons to insure that incidents like this will not recur. Richard Sullivan, Chairman, Lowell House Committee. Henry E. Russell, Member of Permanent Class Committee. Cleveland Amory, Ex-President, The CRIMSON. John S. Stillman, President, Harvard Student Union. James Tobin, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. Michael P. Grace, President. The Independents. Mason Fernald, Member of the Student Council. Edward C. K. Read, President, The Lampoon. Theodore Holisworth, Jr., Member of the Student Council. Edmond L. Cherbonnier, President, Phillips Brooks House...
...gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears which are abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children with normal ears and in succeeding generations the defect will not recur." This was significant because such malformations as polydactyly (extra fingers) often occur on only one hand, sometimes skip a generation...
...worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such violent sun storms will probably recur every 27 days (time for the sun to revolve once) until some time in 1939. That year will mark a height of solar activity which recurs every 23 years...