Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT M. DAVIS Monrovia, Liberia
THE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE (958 pp.)-Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis-Harcourt, Brace & World ($15).
Until Editor Hart-Davis made this exhaustive collection, few of Wilde's letters were available, and of those in print, many had been bowdlerized. For Wilde's trials left British society with a sense of collective embarrassment that lingered for decades. The author's son Vyvyan lived...
Colored Cats Bitched. For all that, most Negro jazzmen are as concerned as the whites about the effects of prejudice in either direction. Querulous Trumpeter Miles Davis has always insisted on hiring his musicians on talent only, although he concedes that "some colored cats bitched" when he added white Saxophonist...
The Dream Animal. Most scientists ruthlessly exclude anything personal in their writings; Eiseley makes science an intensely personal experience. One evening, he recalls in The Firmament of Time, he was accidentally locked in a museum among grotesque skeletons of giant crabs. As the crabs began to glow in the light...