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Spice is added to this interesting bit of rural Americans by cousin Teddy, who believes firmly that he is Theodore Roosevelt at the battle of San Juan Hill. In fact, his military exploits on the stairs of the Brewster mansion (where he labors under the delusion that there are 150...
Ten-Year Plan. Romains is one of the most prolific of living writers. When he started writing Men of Good Will, he had already turned out many volumes-Death of a Nobody, which won sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic...
The Book. The 59 chapters that make up the two parts of Work and Play are slower going than the previous books. The France that they describe has come out of World War I without knowing how deeply its strength has been sapped. In some ways it is healthier: the...
To Romains much of the error lay in the antiquated habits of thought of men, who assumed the existence of unities in life (and made practical plans on this assumption) where, in fact, none existed. Novels that showed life revolving around a single character, he believed, contributed to the gigantic...
On Your Knees! Gravely the minister summoned his listeners to repentance. Freedom from want and fear is "cruel delusion." What mankind needs is penitence. Cried he: "After a year and ten months of the deadliest war this country has ever fought, we in the United States still have had no...