Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That is the answer that Vera Britain, author of "Testament of Youth," gave to the question, "Is War Inevitable?" in a talk sponsored by the League of Nations Association in Sanders Theatre last night...
About ten dogs, all scotties except for one Sealyham, are called for in the script. Francis H. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," has tentatively selected the dogs used. He hopes that Flintfield Gayseal, a son of Champions, of the High Acre kennels of Newton Center, will be available for the play...
...detachment Heine's twisted mixture of harshness and tenderness, irony and romantic feeling, concluded that "Heine has every gift- except love." Psychoanalyst Freud more justly attributes Heine's acerbities to a defense mechanism, functioning with doubled power because he was not only a poet, but a Jew. Author Untermeyer, Jew and poet also, and a lifelong admirer of Heine's works, adopts in general the Freudian view, fills it out with consistent sympathy and understanding. If he errs in ascribing a more-than-probable importance to a bit of blighted calf love, skims perhaps too lightly over...
...CROOKED CORONET-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Since the resounding splash of The Green Hat (1924) seven books have dropped more or less silently from Author Aden's pen. There is no reason why his latest should cause more of a splash than its predecessors. A collection of connected short stories (whimsically called "legends"), it describes a housemaid's dream of gilded ladies and ornate gentlemen, pursuing, amid the glint of diamonds and the smoke of fine cigars, their exquisitely sophisticated pleasures...
...longer alive." Heine would have appreciated the joke which time has played on him. When the Nazi censors expunged his works, along with those of all other non-Aryans, from the roster of German literature, they were confronted with the unfortunate fact that he was the author of "Die Lorelei"-a song without which no German beer party is complete. The poem perforce remains in Nazi songbooks. its author blandly listed as "unknown...