Word: julians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WINES: THEIR SELECTION, CARE AND SERVICE - Julian Street-Knopf ($2). Useful information for bibbers, by one who has been at it for 30 years...
...lieutenant in 1913. He served at U. S. forts and camps, went to France in 1918, returned to minister at more forts and camps. A cultured, diffident man of God, well-liked by his fellows. he is fond of horseback and baseball. In his new job he succeeds Col. Julian Emmet Yates, also a Baptist...
...Lowell House spy tells us that when Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge takes his Saturday night bath, he is entertained in the tub by a fleet of celluloid ducks. This sounds two good two be twue...
LAST month Mr. Julian Green, in the midst of being astonished at the number of beggars in New York as compared with Paris, spoke to a Times reporter about his ambition as a writer. He is now far more concerned with style than he used to be, and his concern is to render it invisible. What he wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries...
...Julian Green's "Invisible prose" as a categorical imperative is a delusion: the most ornate style conceivable might be as perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader...