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Jackson, who held an appointment as associate professor, is an authority on the culture and language of Ireland. He joined the faculty as a Visiting Lecturer in 1939. The new professor is an author of numerous articles on Irish and Welsh literature...
...selections: Edward, My Son; Life With Mother; Anne of the Thousand Days; Death of a Salesman; Kiss Me, Kate. For this month she has chosen Sidney Kingsley's promising Detective Story. She has also closed a deal giving her members seats for April's South Pacific, whose author-producers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, are notoriously fussy about what happens to their tickets...
...said of poverty, illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while it is scrapping an old one. But he will get no encouragement from the author of The Waste Land, who has rescued his vision of culture simply to give it an impressive funeral...
Professor Jakobson, who will teach in the field of Slavic philology and advanced literature, holds degrees from the Universities of Moscow and Prague. He is the author of over 200 books and articles on Russian, Czech and Slovak language, literature, and folklore...
...Chippler, missionaries as self-seeking as Balthazar Harge and theologians as long-winded as Deacon Popplewood. But there were others, too. Whatever else Americans had or lacked 100 years ago, a belief in God was fundamental to most of them. In The God-Seeker, except for Aaron Gadd, Author Lewis leaves it only to Babbitts in frock coats...