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...years that followed, the magazines they co-edited (Smart Set and the American Mercury) introduced or helped to foster such notables as James Joyce, Aldous Huxley. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O'Neill. They also became trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...
...Books" was the cry in the first number of the Guild's booklet Wings, under Editor in Chief Carl Van Doren. For a while, the Guild tried to find books that "will be permanently important." It chose the work of such writers as Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, Novelists Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Historian Claude Bowers. When Publisher Nelson Doubleday took over in 1934, all that changed. Guild Judge Burton Rascoe gave Guild members ten Doubleday books out of 13 in 1935. That vulnerable policy changed too; nowadays, very few Doubleday books get the Guild...
...Govindas Vishnoodas) Desani is a clever young Hindu intoxicated with Shakespeare, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley and words in general. His first novel, All About H. Hatterr, is an extended verbal jag that has already set London highbrows searching vainly for similes. Said T. S. Eliot: "Certainly a remarkable book. In all my experience, I have not met with anything quite like...
...kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have been stimulated by all this, but Poet Spender kept finding bumblebees in his blossoms. "In the life of action," he noted sadly, "I do everything that my friends tell me to do, and have no opinions of my own." The social...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals last night elected officers for next year's production. They are: Aldous H. Chapin '52, chairman; David B. Aldrich '52, vice-chairman; and Frank H. Stewart '52, secretary...