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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS (1,831 pp.)-John Bartlett-12th Edition Revised & Enlarged by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett-Little, Brown...
...years since Boston's John Bartlett first tried to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " In 1937, when Editors Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett put Bartlett's eleventh edition together, they went far beyond the founder's original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful...
...plain that enlargement was already desirable. Man in his Penultimate War was saying words that had to be recorded." Voices that had seemed too faint in the '30s (Winston Churchill was not even included) were now fairly screaming for attention. Result: the editors have left Bartlett unchanged from Poet Caedmon (A.D. 670) to Poet Rudyard Kipling, but from there on nobody will recognize the old household...
Surer of echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...
...theory that "the artists of tomorrow are the art students of today," Gallery Director Bartlett Hayes Jr. had gathered 113 prize student pictures from 25 of the country's best art schools. Knowing the assembly-line dreariness of most U.S. art education (which grinds out armies of would-be painters each year), Hayes himself had been surprised by the result-a show that was technically expert, sparkling with real talent and livelier than most on Manhattan's art-merchandising 57th Street...