Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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REQUIEM-Humbert Wolfe-Dor-an ($1.50). In English drawing-rooms which once echoed with frantic praise of Shelley's Adonais or censure of Keats' Endymion people now prefer, if literature must be mentioned, to comment briefly on what Bernard Shaw said to the old lady from Nantucket. The one astounding exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry...
...schoolboy teammates. The possibilities of either as a first string college pilot are very difficult to predict. Close followers of the sport for the last few years have been surprised this year to see Kelley holding down the team A assignment. The coaches have so far made no comment on the quarterback situation and the purport of the reports that have proceeded from the scrimmages has been that Kelley is playing a consistent game and that he is satisfactorily carrying out his difficult task. Until the first game or two of the season gives someone beside the coaches a chance...
...this time of year, or any other for that matter, that everyone feels called upon to comment on the tugidity of theatrical Boston. The general concession of opinion seems to be that they do these things much better abroad and that the name doldrums was conceived in honor of the local Riaito. As a matter of fact the theatrical season in Boston is not as good as it used to be--and it never was. Granted that Booth once trod those boards and that the Stupidities of 1927 now makes merry in the hallowed footsteps, the discerning must remember that...
...graduate student. Older, more settled than his younger brothers his ideals may find their realities in things of a far different nature. Where they are, they are his to choose. Between and sealing wax the difference is largely one of option, and whichever words the satisfaction is acceptable, without comment or peril, to the individual temperament, and in this case individual temperament is the ultimate criterion...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...