… Science. By Houston Peterson. New York: Longmans Green and Company. $3.50. Huxley. By Clarence Ayres. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.00. We often forget the price which others have … in a long process of temporal development from individuals of a quite different type, is a conception so completely …
… spring, spring, spring, spring, they rejoice, we who never die, never die! But already the mayflower on the sidehill is brown and … his tail, the joyful celebrant with his own mournful comment. Time only for the single dream, as, in this misty …
… strength and resolution.” Wallace Stevens in 1906 was also struggling to live and to write, but one would not … creative authority. When we read his appreciative 1940 commentary on Willa Cather, it helps to put them on a more … The Early Years, 1879—1923 by Joan Richardson, offer points of confluence. They were contemporary Americans, …
Essays
… screenplay for Graham Greene’s This Gun for Hire . Burnett also has a solid claim to inventing the heist film with … aspired to write an American version of The Human Comedy . But the big city impressed upon him the alienation … and second-generation immigrants. Humphrey Bogart embodied this shift in a different way as the sole WASP among …
Fiction
… something Carly has taught me. She has long advocated the combination of being vague and authoritative. I wait for a … and Alex lean together on the bookcase, their long, bony bodies side by side. Alex gives my sister’s waist a squeeze, … this year. He shows us a million uninteresting things. He points out a wooden beam in the ceiling that’s from an …
… $30.00. Jervis Anderson’s biography of Bayard Rustin reveals that the restricted opportunities for gays did not … president. Shortly thereafter, Rustin ended his studies at Cheney State Teachers College, again because of … Quaker pacifism. After the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the American Communist Party strongly opposed American involvement in the …