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...long foreword to his handbook, which he publishes himself because "nobody else will print it," Sargent calls. Professor of Anthropology Clyde K. M. Kluckhonn a "trigger man to Provost Buck...
...detailed account of seventy-four years of Harvard football, including the highlights of every game and the lineups of each Yale contest, is the subject of "The History of Football at Harvard," a new book by Morris A. Beale. The volume also contains a foreword by Hamilton Fish '10, and an introduction by John Kieran...
...foreword to his film, "The Eternal Return," the French writer Jean Cocteau explains that the title is borrowed from Nietzsche, and that it means great legends of the past may re-occur without their participants being aware of it. with this interesting idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily...
...profanity and hopes for an enrichment of all its forms: the oath denunciatory, the oath asseverative, the oath interjectional, the malediction. His argument is a little too mechanically playful, but it is well illustrated and has some grains of sense. Henry L. Mencken (The American Language) contributes an approving foreword, remarking, among other things, that...
Thomas D'Arcy Brophy, prime mover of the "Freedom Train," has endorsed the magazine and is writing the foreword to the first issue for the same reason...