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Some of Huxley's notes: The Nature of Love, Physical Passion, Old Age, Progress, Money, Comic Poetry, Obscurity in Poetry. God, Death. Authors quoted range from Sappho to Paul Valery, include many passages from U. S. Poet Walt Whitman but only one from a living English poet, William Henry Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish...
Silly Symphonies, like Mickey Mouse, are an invention of Comic Artist Walt Disney, who at 31 gets about $400,000 a year from his ridiculous creations. Admirers of Silly Symphonies have lately been delighted to see that instead of using black & white line drawings as heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their...
...that every three months a new painting will hang in that space on the same terms. I know I want to spend a few weeks with a Hopper. Has anyone got a good Monet which he would like to rent out? I must talk to Marie Harriman about a Walt Kuhn...
...little white house near the Forest of Fontainebleau an aged, paralytic blind-man has lain for months listening to the poems of Walt Whitman. Sometimes his wife would read them to him, sometimes young Eric Fenby, a Yorkshireman like himself. But it was always Whitman the blindman asked for, preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings...
...large block of the Kastle's coping is the English nation, which to the Professor's amazement seems always able to addle through. In a sketch of Henry Ford, Author Pitkin disclaims ambition to write the Ford biography-"the job would be too dull for us." Walt Whitman he calls a caution, but is forced to admit, "Not until introverts no longer read and write shall we be rid of the Steer that lived on Leaves of Grass." In spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind...