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Scene is the blasted heath of Phillpotts' beloved Dartmoor. Lady Macbeth is Avis Ullathorne, a strapping country wench with a shrewd mind, nerves of steel. Macbeth is Peter Bryden, a fine upstanding man to look at but with a fatal flaw in him called conscience. Duncan is his older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dartmoor Macbeth | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

But quotation, often unjust, cannot do Willa Cather justice. Her manner of writing has little in common with her noisy day. Characterized by an English critic as "that rara avis, an autochthonous American author," she is most conveniently classified by negatives. Says the same critic: "The King Charles's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amen, Sinner | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Obviously there would be many lecture-halls on the market if all colleges decided that their functions was to educate only potential geniuses. The best possibility for a satisfactory solution of the difficulty probably lies in an accentuation of the difference in standards which already exists among colleges. Those which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSUMMATE INTELLECT | 5/2/1931 | See Source »

If such psychological principles are valid for the office worker they must be true in other walks of life. The first of these principles has long been known in the laboring classes. The building trades are especially enlightened on this subject and it is the exception to find a bricklayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EFFICIENCY PLUS | 10/14/1930 | See Source »

¶ Last week Director Woodcock announced the appointments of Randolph Shaw, special assistant to the Attorney General, major in the Army Reserve Corps, to be chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Law Division, and of Dwight E. Avis, Detroit Dry Agent, to be chief of the new corps of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: School for Sleuths | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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