Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Says Author Pitkin: "I cannot disclose it here simply because of the circumstances under which it was confidentially disclosed...
Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...Author Edmund Wilson admires Marcel Proust, shows it in this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...
...Author Wilson, 34, went to Princeton, to France. He has been managing editor of the smartchart Vanity Fair, writes poetry and essays for the New Republic, liberal weekly. Several of his characters are supposedly derived from real people: Rita-Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Daisy-Florence Murray, onetime chorus girl. Others said to be represented: Novelist John Dos Passos; Princeton's genial, erudite Dean Christian Gauss...
...called herself "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like." Author Asbury calls her "the most industrious meddler and busy-body that even the Middle West, hotbed of the bizarre and the fanatical, has ever produced." However that may be, Carry Nation's early, morbidly religious life led naturally to a public career which made her name a U. S. byword...