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...president of Institute International de Literature Iberoamericana, 1940-1942. He has been chairman of numerous conferences and committees on Latin-American affairs since 1939. In the literary field he has been Associate Editor of "Hispania" since 1942, Associate Editor of "Revista Iberoamericana," 1940-1943, and Co-General Editor of "Handbook of Brazilian Studies...
Between the two lies the vast, changeable, luxuriant expanse of the English tongue. Out last week was a lively approach to that area: The Reader over Your Shoulder-A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, by Robert Graves & Alan Hodge (Macmillan; $3). Graves's books (over 60) now outnumber his years (48). He collaborated on The Reader with a 28-year-old Oxonian official of the British Ministry of Information...
Their book is less a handbook than a lively, disorderly, hair-splitting collection of obiter dicta. In an agile linguistic commando raid Authors Graves & Hodge survey the terrain of English prose and map its modern contours. Armed with 25 "principles of clear statement" they blast at 54 recent writers...
...Crusade will open in January, with huge mass meetings in some 100 cities from coast to coast. The meetings will be all-day affairs. Says the Crusade handbook: "Special attention will be given to music and singing and maintaining a high spiritual atmosphere during the entire program." At each meeting everyone will be given a postcard reproduction of the Christy painting. Then & there Methodists will take out their pens, address the cards to men in the armed forces, telling them that the people at home stand for a new world order, that religion must dominate the peace table...
Says the Crusade handbook: "Do not argue or criticize-express your opinion. Do not get up petitions-write personal letters. Do not mention the Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...