Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basically Professor Babbitt's criticism is the same as it was some years ago, but Mencken is out of fashion, and his remarks mean far less to the contemporary student and critic than Professor Babbitt would have us believe. Essays on the primitivism of Wordsworth, on Coleridge and Dr. Johnson and the imagination, are studies more immediately interesting to the student of literature. Professor Lowes comes in for his share of criticism in the former essay, and Professor Carpenter is nicked once in the course of the book. All in all, however, they fare better than do Rebecca West...
Should children be brought up at the State's expense as Reds? Are Communist parents living idly on the Dole fit to bring up their own offspring? Last week Australia's Federal Government moved toward answering these questions in drastic fashion...
...respect and deepest regret we beg to inform you that, when on February 23 at about 3 p. m., six piratic airplanes from the invading Japanese Navy were circling over Soochow, dropping bombs on an entirely unarmed and innocent civilian population, destroying lives and property alike in a wanton fashion unheard, of before, your heroic son Robert Short, flying a Boeing plane, engaged in a fight with the above planes, and after a 10-minute machine gun fire, he was shot and nose-dived to death...
...Strachey is largely absent. Mr. Maurois attempts at all times to understand. In "A Private Universe" he gives advice to young Frenchmen departing for England and America. "Give logic a rest while you are over there," he tells the first. "But enjoy the general spectacle." To the second: "Fashion within yourself an America of which you will be worth: that is the only America you will discover...
...Coward, "My Song" with Ray Henderson, "Of Thee I Sing" with George Gershwin, "Old Man River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little Irving Berlin was flying all over his keyboard with the most elaborate gestures. But people sitting near him could see that he was playing in cinema fashion, not touching the keys. When his turn came to solo, his colleagues started to snicker. Red as an apple he went to the front, started to play "Alexander's Ragtime Band" like a ten-year-old child. The Alley, of course, has known all along that the composer...