Word: dahlberg
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...About 115 to 120 boys are conceived for every 100 girls, but normally about 50% more male embryos are lost in miscarriages than female. Fewer children are born in wartime,* especially-suggests Biologist Gunner Dahlberg of Sweden's great Upsala University-to hard-working women, who are most likely to suffer miscarriages. This displacement is enough, he believes, to affect the boy-girl ratio...
Carl W. Albright, Shobonier, III., Francis S. Andrews, Norway, Me., Herbert H. Bowman 2G, Berkeley, Calif., Joel F. Buchanan, Jr., Ardmore, Okla., Milton F. Chauner, Bozeman, Mont., John Clark, Jr., St. Louis, Me., Forest H. Cleave, Urbana, III., Richard C. Crockett, London, N. Dak., John F. Dahlberg, Jr., Gary...
Criticism. Probably the year's most important book of criticism was F. O. Matthiessen's exhaustive study of The American Renaissance ($5). More stimulating, when it was not making calf's-eyes at bathos, was Edward Dahlberg's violent Do These Bones Live ($3). Van Wyck Brooks (The Opinions of Oliver Allston; $3) was the year's prime example of one who, in the frenzy of his search for saving values, leaped before he looked, with both hands clamped to his eyes. His yoking of "optimistic" Thomas Mann and Whittier as "primary" artists...
...THESE BONES LIVE-Edward Dahlberg-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A violent blowtorch of poetic anarchy, turned on U.S. literature and such related subjects as the State, materialism, sex, war, tradition, human docility. At its worst it verges on literary hysteria; at its best it has rare eloquence, insight and daring. The book will either bore or infuriate any average law-abider...