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These agonists are the personifications of the human societies we call civilizations, in their upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
Though his life has to a large degree been concerned with Basic, Professor Richards is the author of "Foundations of Esthetes." "Practical Criticism," and "Meneins on the Mind." He is no mean mountain climber, and in 1937, 10 years after their marriage, he and his wife were the first to seale Dent Blanche, in the Alps--a feat that was duplicated only years later, and then by a professional-led group...
...load of debt from his business failures and love of high living seems to have driven him on to writing as much as women or the urge to power. The ill-mannered, unkempt son of a tight-fisted petit bourgeois, he was at heart a snob and a social climber who faked a claim to nobility. To keep up with the post-Napoleonic Joneses, Balzac sat at his table for twelve hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that publishers bought and paid for his novels before...
Died. Antoinette Carter Hughes, 81, publicity-shunning wife of retired U.S. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, great outdoors woman arid onetime mountain climber; in Washington...
...Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human Comedy ($2.75), lit with occasional passages of warm humor, became insipid with its determined intellectual baby talk...