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Poets want to take truth by the hand; prophets want to get truth by the tail. A hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative...
Editor Robert C. Cook of the Association's Journal of Heredity published the pictures and report which Mr. Sternberger mailed. Commented Editor Cook last week: "There is no scientific justification whatever for Mr. Sternberger's expressed belief that the creature is a catdog hybrid, or that its appearance is due to the exploded theory of 'maternal impressions.' We are dealing almost certainly with a genetic variation in this case, inherited as a recessive character, which characters ordinarily appear in the progeny of normal parents. (Feeblemindedness in humans behaves in the same way, as do a multitude...
Monte Bourjaily stated that the money was his own and answered the second question in early October with a hybrid magazine on cheap paper containing, besides pictures, an equal amount of text. From the 30,000 circulation it had had under the Times, the Bourjailyzed picture weekly increased to 117,750 including 85,000 new-stand sales at 10? the copy...
Appropriately enough, the name means "creation of gold" in his native tongue. Siamese is a hybrid of Pali, an Indian dialect, of which the Harvard monopoly is held by Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanscrit and sole upholder of the Department of Indic Philology. The first name, Kaisui, means "good luck...
...Shakers were the first "functionalists" for, surrounded by hybrid designs of French or German ornament, they rediscovered Early American simplicity. All this is plain to be seen, in their cup-boards and in their clothes. Everywhere their superior standard of workmanship is effectively shown...