… They may be willing to admit that a moron can become normal by the use of a serum, but they do not foresee … themselves which is invisible to foreigners. English officials are too often unaware of the sleeping dogs of other … even lapses from domesticity, but he was a popular king and died regretted. It is what the French call Anglo-Saxon …
… Recognition. Edited by Edmund Wilson. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $5.00. This year and last, which, for plain and … the vast implications of biology in general, nevertheless points a very clear moral for the political present. In the … great ones. A few are by Europeans, notably Lawrence’s “Studies in Classic American Literature,” which, coming between …
… life, and death. It does not threaten his business nor his comforts nor his measure of social esteem. On the other … her you must be faithful. The Fundamentalist in every age points out how reason perpetually discovers its own errors. … of immeasurably greater significance than could be embodied in one science or one scientist. Those who attend the …
… Thought. By Bernard Smith. New York: Har-court, Brace and Company. $3.00. Shakespeare. By Mark Van Doren. New York: … we never see him except when he is playing a part, to an audience or for his own benefit. Perhaps the very essence of … for all the subtle overtones that Mr. Van Doren reveals in him—or perhaps creates for him. Cleanth Brooks is in …
Fiction
… take you shopping for fur in the middle of July. You’ll come back to visit Umma, of course, every harvest holiday … and new year. But when it’s your turn to grow old and die, you’ll be wrapped in Siberian mink. “How are they?” … out the driver’s window to inspect your mother’s farm. He points out the new transmission towers under construction in …
Essays
… watching the place fill up with everything from a gigantic commercial viewing tower to a Jesus wax museum. For another, … Apace, Shaara’s novel found an ingenious expedient for conveying the human dimension of the battle by shifting back and forth among the points of view of selected, mainly well-known historical …