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...stories are written in a jarring blend of phonetic dialect ("Shuddap, you bassars or I'll trun the lot of you out") and literary flourishes ("She saw in the bough of the child the tree of the man"). As explained by Brown, the accent contains "the ghosts of several dialects common to soldiers . . . [but] is certainly not Brooklynese...
...branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built...
...Principles of Psychology for 13th place, and Lenin's Imperialism; the State and Revolution nosed out his master Marx's Das Kapital. Also rans: Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought; Tolstoy's What...
...Golden Bough was abridged to one inexpensive volume. Gilbert Murray, famed classical scholar at Oxford, "with a thrill of alarm" hailed it as "a dangerous book." Said he: "Frazer tends to destroy [Christianity] by merely showing how old it is. ... The most mystical Christian doctrines . . . appear as commonplaces of savage superstition, sometimes revolting, sometimes in their way sublime. ..." Others were less upset. Wrote John Peale Bishop of The Golden Bough: "By extending [Christianity's] existence into the dark backward and abyss of time, it has gained not only the respectability of age, but another authenticity...
...creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural living: she cannot describe a torn sheep or a potato-digging without suggesting The Golden Bough or the poetry of St.-Joan Perse (Alexis Leger). As a woman Elizabeth Madox Roberts has her principal strength, her ultimate weakness. Her strength is an exquisite sensitiveness to the subtlest personal emotions, and to the quieter values of a well-executed prose. Her weakness is a sort of thin...