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...among the best novels in the short memory of modern man. Rebecca West had lost none of her brilliance. Yet the serious channel of her thought was plain to see. Her theme, Woman v. Man, was well-worn but full of unplumbed depths, strange eddies, many a pleasantly gurgling shallow. Masculine passengers at times hung on to their hats and gripped the gunwale, never felt easy enough to relax, but at the end gave a sigh of thanks for an instructive journey...
...Horn graybeards that hurt a solid little ship, but the stinking steep, toppling walls of water a hundred-mile breeze pushes up in a shallow puddle like the North Sea or Channel...
...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...
Reviewing, coordinating, synthesizing always present perplexing problems. None the less, it should be recognized that reviewing is within any teacher's purview, or to put it more pointedly, that it is part of his job. Reviewing, in this sense, does not mean cramming shallow pates with doctored facts. It means, above all, the organization of material previously presented--material that necessarily could not be schematized and organized at the beginning of a course...
...names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion as Anthony Adverse to make smooth their path, romances everywhere came in on the wings of the morning, set off down the broad highway...