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...anonymous author for 15 years of the often wise, often witty column, "Topics of The Times," Strunsky had a far-darting eye. In a single week, he looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky...
Ancient Art. The origin of the enema is veiled in the mist of antiquity. The Hindu Vedas hint of its use in 2000 B.C. In the sth Century Herodotus noted that "the Egyptians clear themselves on three consecutive days every month." The Egyptians learned the art, said the Roman Naturalist Pliny, from the long-beaked ibis, who "washes the inside of his body by introducing water with his beak into the channel by which ... the residue of our food should leave...
Taking time out from his massive life work, "An Oral History of Our Time," the Village Herodotus has written a monologue on "Why Princeton Should Be Abolished," which he hopes to have published in the near future, perhaps in the Saturday Review of Literature. Gould reasons along hitherto untried lines: "Princeton was originally the college of New Jersey, and in New Jersey people put tomatoes in their clam chowder." Therefore Princeton should be abolished...
Author Green looks back on his French schooldays with some dismay. The boys studied day & night, at 14 could read Herodotus, find their way through the Hundred Years War, explain Newton's theory of colors. Once a week, for one hour, they exercised with dumbbells and climbed ropes, "fully dressed, of course; the idea of taking off one's clothes to go through exercises would be considered strange and indecent." Seldom, says Author Green, did these children or their teachers "think of the new generation growing up on the other side of the Rhine, sturdy fellows whose bodies...
...books to be talked about will be varied likewise. Instead of being laid out under imposing categories, as before (History, Poetry and Philosophy, Fiction, etc.), they compose a fluid series with a little more contemporary glitter. This Sunday Historian Allan Nevins will have a chance to link up Herodotus' History (of how the Greeks stood off the Persians) with World War II. On Dec. 14 a classic of conservatism, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, will be taken up along with a classic of revolution, Tom Paine's The Rights...