Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breach between father and son gradually widens until John finally leaves his ancestral home to go north and work in Detroit as a bank clerk is merely the vehicle for the steady development of an atmosphere, which is obviously the author's chief excuse for writing the book. He accomplishes his end well, however, for the reader is left a real understanding of a class of people in the south which is often written about but seldom presented in such a sympathic and clear form...
...much better case is made against standardization as applied to the American short story, perhaps because this is more closely allied to the author's usual sphere of influence. The implications of his economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters...
...Krutch, the author of "Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Modern Temper", spoke Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, where his subject was "The Drama from Ibsen to O'Neill...
...complete series of humorous little books and comic songs, written by an author whose identity has never been found out, was illustrated by George Cruikshank; this is now being shown, as is the illustrated copy of Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", written in simplified language especially for the use of children...
...Author. Bertrand Russell is heir presumptive to an earldom, but he shares with his famed sister-in-law? the honor of making people forget his title and remember his work. He is known for books on mathematics, philosophy, sociology, education. He formerly held a fellowship at Cambridge, but was deprived of it during the War for his writings against conscription, for which he was for a time imprisoned. He says of himself: "I like the sea, logic, theology, heraldry, the first two because they are inhuman, the others because they are absurd...