Word: formative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dedicated to "Maxwell Perkins, a great publisher and steadfast friend." It is not often that we find an author on speaking terms with his publisher. Mutual gratitude, however, is here quite in order, because Scribners has put forth Mr. Copeland's excellent work in an appropriately fine format...
Alike in purpose and format is the "1934 Essay Annual" edited by Erich A. Walter of the University of Michigan. "Convinced after the reception of last year's volume, that readers genuinely desire a yearly record of 'What America Is Saying'" the editor has offered to the public his second compilation of current and significant personal, critical, controversial, and humorous essays...
...CHESTERTON proceeds to his treatment of Thomas Aquinas in the genial manner of a man who once wrote a history of England without a date. His book is not a biography, for the scant modern knowledge of Aquinas' life could not be expanded even into Mr. Chesterton's format. Nor is it a mental history of Aquinas; Mr. Chesterton cheerfully admits that he knows little of the metaphysics or theology which were the great framework of that history. It is an attempt to form a channel from Thomism to the mind of the modern man, and an attempt to prove...
Price 50? the copy, Esquire's first issue was composed of 116 large pages of shiny paper, 40 of them printed in color. Even more inviting than the handsome format of Esquire was its table of contents, in which each item had been selected not for artistic or literary merit but on the criterion of "an especial appeal for men." The first issue contained an article on marlin fishing by Ernest Hemingway; an article on Burlesque, called "I Am Dying, Little Egypt," by Gilbert Seldes; an interview with Nicholas Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne...
...reorganization of the Harvard Critic, an undergraduate publication, was announced yesterday by the executive board. The new Critic will be in Magazine form, consisting of 16 pages with single column printing, the format size being six by eight inches...