Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original. The one unfavorable aspect of the elementary classics courses at Harvard is the manner in which they are given. One really cannot achieve a real understanding of the authors from reading them in a schoolboy manner in Latin B. Such uninteresting teaching is not conducive to acquiring a love of the language or the things which are written in it. One learned classicist has suggested that the real way to secure a knowledge and love of ancient literature is to read it in translation until you have sufficient interest to try it in the original. This is probably true...
...only good idea in Limehouse Blues. Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings...
...Philosopher Russell's cure for marital malaise which netted him the most attention. "Americans," he once declared, "should indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes....Marriage is not the culmination of romantic love as is conventionally supposed. It should be primarily a system whereby a home may be provided for children-and making a home has nothing, or very little, to do with sexual love." To most normal Anglo-Saxons such talk was the rankest social heresy and to most U. S. homes Earl Russell, for all his gift of persuasive language, was nothing but a reprehensible...
Tarabas was a creature of impulse. It was impulse rather than conviction that got him mixed up with a student revolutionary society in St. Petersburg. When his father with difficulty got him acquitted, Tarabas was shipped off to the U.S. In Manhattan he made violent love to a Russian waitress, made more violent scenes when she cast her eyes elsewhere. He might have landed in a serious scrape when he throttled her employer, but war broke out just then, and Tarabas went back to Russia to fight the Germans...
Masefield must have spent several pleasant hours of relaxation when he wrote this long short story, for it is an intimate tale. Through its rambling pages runs a strong love of the sea which has produced these bold and impetuous characters. Its loose style proves an excellent way in which to bring out the force of the story. Here is an opportunity to see that a successful author and poet can also be a successful talker...