Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace talk today is largely confined to League of Nations prize essay contests and women's club lectures. Yet it is hard for Americans to believe that all Europe is arming "for the war that is coming." However, there is every reason to believe that an element of truth lurks behind the alarming reports of returning tourists who predict war within the year...
...Author. Gabrielle Colette (Mme Henri de Jouvenel), 57, is famed in France as Foremost Woman of Letters and as an epicure. Her late first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars.* wrote many a lyric, essay and sophisticated lovestory signed "Willy." He collaborated with Colette on the famed Claudine series. Colette has written nearly 40 books. Though she did not invent the Modern French Woman in fiction, she is credited with supplying "the organs, the accuracies, the mind and the heart." Other translated novels: Mitsou (TIME, July 7), Cheri, Claudine at School...
Outstanding for the latter quality is W. H. Melish's essay on "Norman Forester and the New Humanism." Melish has a grasp of his subject, a background of extensive reading, and a maturity of literary style which place him in a class by himself among the contributors to the present number of the Advocate. He is a thorough-going, though far from a blind, disciple of Professor Babbitt. He has in fact done more than accept the Humanist creed; he has taken the trouble to find out what the Humanists are talking about and has equipped himself to speak with...
Turning from the thoughtful and carefully composed essay of Mr. Melish the reader comes upon E. L. Belisle's "Dialogues of the Half Dead"--the order is rather reversed since Mr. Belisle's sketch occupies the opening pages of the issues. Here is something in quite a different vein--a sort of Babel of philosophers, poets, and literary figures of all ages and kinds. The scene is half-way up Olympus; the characters range from Aristotle, Socrates, Aristophanes, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, to Freud, Joyce, Lawrence, Babbitt and many others. Mr. Belisle's effort is the kind of thing...
...many respects Dr. Clark's ideas on charity and his repudiation of large-scale American philanthropy, which he compares to the dole, will attract most of the attention given to the book. But an historical study, in the first essay, of the idea that prosperity is based on slavery and Puritanism is equally worthy of consideration...