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...large body of the essays in this volume could be loosely called literary biography. These are brief and charming sketches, some of famous men, Conrad, Hardy, Oliver Goldsmith, and some of obscure figures, known only through a terse diary or a packet of family letters. In all of them, Virginia Woolf exercises her talent of character-drawing. She uses with extraordinary deftness little details about her subjects' lives and periods; her essays sparkle even when the man is very dull...
...page piece on Oliver Goldsmith is the best portrait: in the brief space, one gets a full idea of the scholar with "ugly body and stumbling tongue," who "had only to write and he was among the angels, speaking with a silver tongue in a world where all is ordered, rational, and serene...
...Smith 24 130 76 336 Murphy 24 57 54 168 Covey 23 20 57 97 Crosby 22 40 15 95 Prior(C) 24 26 32 84 Hickey 23 26 27 79 Gabler 9 27 14 68 Bramhall 12 19 7 45 Stiles 5 5 0 10 Goldsmith 3 4 0 8 Stevenson 6 1 5 7 Cohodes 6 2 1 5 F. Lionette 8 1 1 3 Borah 1 1 0 2 Downey 2 0 0 0 J. Altrocchi...
...quintet just didn't have it yesterday, so the Junior Varsity had little trouble posting a 64 to 39 win. John Altrocchi and John Goldsmith of the J.V. scored 16 and 15 points respectively. Captain Dick Lionette led the freshmen with a mere...
...Stoops to Conquer (by Oliver Goldsmith; produced by the New York City Theatre Company) opened an eight-week repertory season at Manhattan's City Center. Theater has never done as well at the cavernous Center as opera or ballet; but the new engagement had promise. It included among its wares The Corn Is Green and The Devil's Disciple. It could boast of Maurice Evans as its boss. It had a lot of well-known actors on its roster, an advance of $130,000 in its till...