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OPUS 7-Sylvia Townsend Warner- Viking...
...Sylvia Townsend Warner is a competent novelist, so when she turns her hand to verse you expect some salty characterization. She does not fail you. Old Rebecca Random, heroine of these heroic couplets, lived in a picturesque, tumbledown cottage in the English village of Love Green. The cottage attracted tourists' favorable attention; Rebecca might have sold it but always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village...
...Sylvia Townsend Warner, no subscriber to the pathetic fallacy that Virtue is at its best and simplest in the country, says some pretty sharp things about bucolic folk...
...that list was dropped-as everyone knew he was going to be-William Tatem Tilden II who for the last ten years has been ranked No. 1 He had formally renounced all claim to ranking last month when he gave up his amateur standing, turned professional. His friend Francis Townsend Hunter, for three years ranked No. 2, was left out for the same reason. Helen Wills Moody, generally acknowledged to be the greatest woman amateur in the world, was also dropped because, married, she preferred domestic life to playing in major U. S. tournaments last summer. The committee protested that...
...painting at the New York Art Students' League. His salty, Rabe laisian speech caused many a faculty eyebrow to rise. But few teachers have been so beloved, have so successfully inspired the students. From 1920 to 1924 he was to the Art Students' League what Charles Townsend Copeland was to Harvard. William Lyon Phelps to Yale...