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Already many volunteers, including some individual Harvard men, have been working at the center, but this was the first mass enlistment. Two application blanks had to be filled out, fingerprints taken, and photographs made. The line in Emerson Hall took several hours to run the gaunt...
Contradiction. The supposedly transitional machinery of self-government which the British set up as the Indian Legislature Assembly met in Delhi (now swept by malaria). The members, weighted in favor of Government appointees and Europeans (39 Congress party members were in jail), argued turgidly. Gaunt, scholarly, widely hated Home Member Sir Reginald Maxwell inadvertently contradicted Winston Churchill's claim of "reassuring" conditions (TIME, Sept. 21) by an account of railways damaged and of Bengal Province having been for a while "almost completely cut off from northern India." Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Columbia University-educated Untouchable leader, claimed strikes...
...RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY - William Gaunt-Harcourt, Brace...
...Theirs," says Author William Gaunt, "was the tragedy of the century. . . . They had many different enthusiasms-in which, however, there is one consistent factor-a defiance of materialism." Few novels are as absorbing as this collective biography of the Pre-Raphaelites; few are as funny. And no other book on Rossetti and his circle has set them so accurately in their historical context, has given to the queer, excessive things they did so clear a historical meaning. For the Pre-Raphaelites, says Gaunt, are the only optimistic rebel artists who have so far defied industrial civilization. "They would not adapt...
Disaster. A previously inept politico, Franco demonstrated that the stress & strain of being dictator of a gaunt, proud land still in a state of civil war had taught him a few lessons. He canned both General Varela and Serrano in a Cabinet shakeup that became an international sensation...