Word: understandables
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...mother by her son, it may be inferred that the writer's boyhood was made difficult for him by maternal dictatorship. If, on the other hand, someone tells you an anecdote about a youthful episode with a re versed hairbrush, how much more easily will you understand the imagined matricide when you come upon it. The whole thing, in short, boils down to the fairly obvious fact that the author and his work are one and inseparable...
...Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy cod books, and read them; the best bocks are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads; for they may profit by the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall be at your service. I have some of the Old Collana, and the Macchiavel of 1550. Beware of Biblomania." --Chesterfield...
...give which was a peculiar mixture of sound morality and worldly sense, and it seems to us that he wrote and thought in very much the same key as the ordinary American of college age today. What, for example, could be more typical than the advice not to understand title-pages too well, lest it smell pedantry...
There is a new kind of literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand if. Last year there appeared a gigantic volume entitled Ulysses, by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words- many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement of modern letters-a new idea in novels...
...refresh their acquaintance with college opinions and problems. Clearly, a day such as Yale's, in the middle of term-time, would provide the closer touch that is needed. And it would not only be of advantage to the alumni, but might help the students, as well, to understand the changes that are occurring unconsciously around them. The day would not need to be a formal occasion; the more informal it were, the greater its usefulness. And it would not need to be very largely attended, as long as a representative group of alumni took advantage of it. Merely...