Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day the New Yorker appeared with the above ditty, Author Kent was reported arriving in Puerto Rico, where his Washington Post Office Building mural, embellished with an Eskimo message to Puerto Ricans ("Go ahead. Let us change chiefs''), made him a minor hero among Nationalists. At San Juan Mr. Kent offered to testify in the trial of eleven Nationalists charged with killing a policeman, warded off requests for a statement by declaring "If I made one, I'd make it in Eskimo," prepared to sail on to South America...
This engaging character was Achille-Claude Debussy, who died in 1918. He had to wait until last week and the appearance of his first American biography*-his third in English-for a book that would do justice to his lush Bohemian personality and his stature as a composer. Author Thompson, music critic of the New York Sun, paints an intimate picture. Debussy not only resembled a cat; he lived with live cats and collected porcelain cats. His living cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier...
...except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does...
...shrewd and engaging interpretation of modern China which U. S. readers liked almost as well as chop suey. Passing suggestions in that book hinted that what the U. S. needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang...
...Gist of Author Lin's philosophy is that Occidentals need to be taught "a wise disenchantment and a hearty enjoyment of ife." As a measuring rod for gauging the well-balanced man and nation. Dr. Lin submits a formula based on a blend of realism ("R"), dreams ("D"), humor ("H"), sensibility ("S"), qualified by 4 (abnormally high), 3 (high), 2 (fair) and 1 (low). The ideal formula, says Dr. Lin, is R3D2H352 (a middle-of-the-road balance). Nearest to this ideal are the English, one point low on humor and sensibility. The Germans, Japanese and Russians make...