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...obsolescent" verbiage: "Diplomacy would lose much of its spell once stripped of the belle tournure of its nomenclature." Corps Diplomatique itself is no slouch at belle tournure. With scholarly assists from Longfellow, Goethe, Lord Cecil, Dr. Johnson, Sir Henry Wotton,* Rousseau, Burke, Schiller, Lenin, Lord Castlereagh and Bronson Alcott, it delivers itself of such pearls as: "The bores and the bored whom Byron-called the 'two mighty tribes of society,' are still around and about. But diplomats, who are the best society, now follow Ruskin's advice and keep out of it." The Washington Times-Herald says...
Odell Shepard is an idealist, a writer, a lover of Connecticut, a wanderer and a teacher. So was Bronson Alcott, hero of Shepard's Pulitzer Prize biography (Pedlar's Progress). Alcott was a failure at almost everything he tried; Shepard has been a success...
...year presidency of imaginative Hamilton Holt, Rollins' midway has blossomed with such sprightly sideshows as a course in Evil, a professorship of hunting & fishing, a tree-lined "Walk of Fame" paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great, from Louisa M. Alcott to Christopher Columbus. Also, for all its eccentricities, it has been a sprightly school, with a lively interest...
...weak-eyed, skinny mollycoddle and prig, already "pathetically conscious of being a misfit." He would jeer at anyone who had a squint or a clubfoot; homely girls made him burst into hysterical laughter. He thrilled with the hope of being kidnapped. Charles Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott were his idols. To confidants he showed a collection of photographs of Broadway celebrities, remarking: "That's what I'm going to be ... a dramatic critic." He kept a diary, whose cryptic opening words were "Shakespeare. Circumcision...
Drugs and Assassinations. Carroll Alcott (TIME, May 31) began to hate the Japanese in 1927, when, as a Manila news paperman investigating Japanese fortifications he found himself blocked and thwarted by Japanese agents in the Philippines. The principal one: his barber. My War With Japan is intermingled newspaper reminiscences and history of such Oriental affairs as the Japanese drug trade, together with a blow-by-blow account of how the Japanese tried to jam Alcott's anti-Japanese broadcasts from station XMHA in Shanghai. He was shot at and bombed; efforts were made to kidnap him and break...