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...buildings are large, numerous, and well distributed. But, as the number of students increases every day, it will be necessary soon to add to the buildings. jean Pierre Brissot Nouveau Voyage dans lep Etats-Unis de l'Amerique septentrionaie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUST RIGHT | 11/17/1955 | See Source »

...Soul Enchanted, a tetralogy of which this is Volume III, is author Rolland's effort to study a woman as he studied a man in his ten-volume Jean-Christophe. In Annette and Sylvie (Vol. I), the heroine, Annette, has her illegitimate son by Roger Brissot. In Summer (VoL II) she continues her emotional development, with three men, none of whom is quite the right one. Presumably, happiness awaits her in Vol. IV, now being prepared. Author Rolland, feminist as well as pacifist, is anxious to make Annette self-sufficient, Woman triumphant. With his gathering years, however, his writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hail Storm | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Annette) for the purpose of establishing, beyond all peradventure, certain emotional processes: how she came, after her wild but lovable father's death, to hate her vulgarian half-sister (Sylvie), then to love her passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget him; then to love burly and brilliant Roger Brissot, then not to love him, then give herself to him, put him aside, become with child and at last find Love within herself. The work is delicate, painstaking; the repitition exhaustive. But the author of Jean Christophe craves?and deserves? indulgence. Annette and Sylvie is the first movement in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNETTE | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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