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...exist, said the sardonic Voltaire, it would be necessary to invent one. With a rare burst of creative imagination, a God has been invented for the first play of the Theatre Guild's 14th season. Author of He is Alfred Savoir. He himself exists in the attractive mortal envelope of Tom Powers, not to be confused with Eugene Powers who is also among the comedy's cast as a learned professor...
...projects for planning under capitalism are attempts to invent wooden iron or dry water. Propaganda for return of the pre-machine modes of production is equivalent to preaching that man should do away with clothes, grow hair all over his body and betake himself to the forests. . . . The true way out is not by way of a return to old forms but by going to forms higher than capitalism...
Dorothy Parker patented (though she did not invent) the trick, O. Henryish finale: the sudden, exasperated curse of a woman who simply cannot stand things any longer. But it is some years since she began popping out these oaths; you expect them now, and feel a little cheated when she fails you. She fails often in Death and Taxes, is sometimes reminiscent of minor-but-masculine Poet A. E. Housman, more often of Any Sentimentalist. A Parthian poetess, her chief claim to attention still resides in her parting kick...
Calling upon kindred spirits in all nations to rally to the banner of "Futurist food," Signer Marinetti somewhat further defined this rather vague conception: "The whole world must wake up and invent Futurist lunches and dinners. We must begin with abolishing volume and weight in our food and we must get up a new Futurist mixture which will consist in mixing only the nutritious parts of the food according as scientists will have to discover. . . . The deliciousness of food must be 'immensified' so as to comprise a sensation of all the joys in the universe...
...famed in France as Foremost Woman of Letters and as an epicure. Her late first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars.* wrote many a lyric, essay and sophisticated lovestory signed "Willy." He collaborated with Colette on the famed Claudine series. Colette has written nearly 40 books. Though she did not invent the Modern French Woman in fiction, she is credited with supplying "the organs, the accuracies, the mind and the heart." Other translated novels: Mitsou (TIME, July 7), Cheri, Claudine at School...