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Other fellows include John Tileston Edsall '23, associate professor of Biological Chemistry, who will work at studies in physical chemistry, and John Dos Passos '16, who will work on a continuation of a series of essays on the basis of the present American conceptions of freedom of thought...
...story of the 1927 Chinese civil war, a more vivid and at times more exalted work of dramatic craftsmanship than Verdun. But Malraux was working within far narrower limits, in what physicists by analogy might call a closed field-more exotic, more melodramatic, less austere than Romains'. John Dos Passes' ambitious trilogy of pre-War to post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters, his structure weakened by journalistic sketches and personal asides, his style a brilliant feat...
...reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps. One grotesque, blighted scene followed another. The hero Stavrogin-one of the most astounding characters in fiction-became any confused young intellectual seeking an answer to life. The answer itself was pared down to a kind of Dos-toevsky-for-Tots...
...various elements which have been brought together in Fogg Museum, may, at first glance, seem unrelated. They do, however, form an unified program for the purposes of vagabonding. They are joined to one another in the contrapuntal manner which characterizes a Dos Passos novel. Chronology, in the traditional sense of the word, is distorted; seemingly insignificant details are accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which...
Strawinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882, but for more than twenty years lived in Paris. Among his best known works are: "L'Oiseau de Feu," "Potrouchka," "Lo Sacre du Printemps," "L'Histoire du Soldat," "Oedipus Rox," and "Symphonic dos Psaumes...