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...destroy them. Superficially America's Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes, who when abnormally excited vote for Socialist Norman Thomas, both good friends of Author Ernst...
Novels in the autobiographical form which fail to describe carefully the hero's "awakening" (first woman) are now so rare that one in which this event does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian...
...fundamental fault in modern poetry is its lack of morality. In presenting this thesis in his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1929-30, here published, Professor Garrod does not shrink. To tell a world of poets who detest the touch of morality when they grope in the dark for the hand of beauty that the weakness of their work is their own attitude requires, if not courage, conviction and firm bases...
...colonnade seats back of the stadium should show likewise in the improvements. As the afternoons become shorter the passage is completely dark before the close of the game, even when, as on last Saturday, it is called at two o'clock. The descending crowds have been obliged to grope their way down, and miscalculation on the part of an individual could cause considerable damage not only to himself but to those in front of him. It is to be hoped that the H. A. A. will again show the same spirit of accommodation, and remove this danger by taking...
...judges (TIME, June 24). Hard-boiled correspondents had to grope for adjectives to describe her famed "air of ethereal purity...