Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasure Room of Widener Library may be seen Shakespeare quartos, autograph letters of presidents of the United States, author's manuscripts, and some illuminated parchment and vellum manuscripts dating from the Twelfth Century...
...present revival of perhaps the greatest as well as the last of the comedies of the Restoration period. "The Beaux' Stratagem" by the Jewett players at the Repertory, shows in colorful style the author's laughing mastery over action, for eminence in which George Farquhar's name has slipped through generations of drama lovers...
Intricate and difficult is counterpoint-"the art of adding melodies, according to fixed rules, as accompaniment to a given melody." If Author Huxley's "given melody" is perhaps the conflict between passion and reason, it is outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills...
That is the end of "the chronicle of a woman's life," the first full length novel which famed Austrian Arthur Schnitzler has written for 20 years. The book moves slowly with the pace of life in language that is bare and beautiful. Author Schnitzler does not blame Theresa for her tragedy, nor does he blame the circumstances which compel it. He merely understands that these things are a part of life, and writes about them seriously and gently...
...demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist...