Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into self-imposed exile, but he never got out from under the shadow. On his travels he made friends with Stefan Zweig, Alfred Neumann, Franz Werfel, and wrote two first-class novels, Child of Our Time and The Age of the Fish. Last week the latter was published in English...
...Wild Goose Chase, an imaginative first novel which perhaps deserved more readers than it got, Rex Warner wrote a modern allegory combining athletic prose, adventurous satire, thriller action. Less allegorical and more exciting, The Professor comes nearest to an English It Can't Happen Here, skids nearer plausibility than Sinclair Lewis' political goose-bumper...
Fred N. Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, who introduced the speaker, said that the Department of Anthropology has done more for the study of Irish literature and history than any other college department. Harvard has a large collection of Irish folklore, he said...
From a strictly literary point of view the book is consistently fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...
...Tokio "Advertiser" the films will be especially welcome. The Japanese organ, printed in English, has twice lost all its files, once in the 1923 earthquake and by fire...