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...sensational New York Post published an even starker series on the same subject by earthy Author Erskine Caldwell (God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road...
...doesn't seem quite fair to condemn the Lindberghs for belonging, as they do, to this softer age instead of to a starker...
...American theatre. Even Eugene O'Neill, the paragon of present day critics, is "an unsatisfactory genius." "--it is as an emotionalist, and not as a thinker, that Mr. O'Neill excels. His strength is of the great, raw, shaggy kind that Whitman's has. It is soberer, starker and infinitely more glim. But it is no less torrential, savage as it is, with the same energy, heavy with the same profusion and cumulative in the same headlong...
...summary (pp. 96-97) of American literature before Longfellow seems unhappy in its choice of critical epithets, and shaky in its chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine is an "exotic note" and an escape "from the starker Puritanism of his training," when it is remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that Longfellow is "the first figure in American letters to discover Europe...
...from the School of Architecture S. P. Moorehead 28 A, from the School of Landscape Architecture B. D. Williams3.S.1.A, from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. J. P. Baster 2d.2Q; from the Graduate School of Education E. R. Collier 3G. Ed of Cambridge; from the Theological School R.K. Starker; from the Medical School, C. P. Rhoids 4M.; and from the Dental School N. G. Newman Jr. 3D of Dorchester...