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...letters and their work, most of the lecturers, through sloth or indifference, confine themselves to a leisurely recounting of when an author lived, where he went to school, what he wrote, and what critics have said about him since; and all of that can be read in more lucid form in Moody and Lovett. There are exceptions, Professor Murray on Shakespeare and Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets being the most notable. But it is true in general, that Harvard's best scholars talking about England's best writers give the world's worst lectures...
...author's personality than of the strange lands and queer people he meets on the way. Here, we are amused and interested in Mr. Guedalla's skill as a virtuoso of the pen. As always, he is witty and charming; and with penetrating analysis he gives a lucid picture of the South American scene. But the fact that he is writing about South America is only incidental. It is the charming Mr. Guedana we are interested in, and insofar as the Argentine landscape is tinctured with his point of view and used as a basis for his digressions, the book...
...York Evening Post was the only Metropolitan newspaper to develop the story in Chemist Jean Piccard. The article swiftly became a significant, lucid disquisition on identical twins, i.e., twins conceived in the same ovum as were Auguste & Jean Piccard.* Said Chemist Jean Piccard: "It is a well-known fact that usually one of two identical twins is left-handed while the other one is righthanded. It is well known also that there are many more left-handed persons who never had any twin...
...matter how he troubles the waters, no matter how deeply lucid he may leave them, at the bottom of every book its author may be found. Herbert George Wells cannot hold his breath long enough to stay there: he comes bobbing up, threshes around, blows off steam at a great rate. So argumentative did his novels become that after a while they ceased to be novels, turned to Outlines of History, Sciences of Life, Salvagings of Civilization. Not since Meanwhile (1927) has he written a book that even he would call a novel. With The Bulpington of Blup, which...
...expected a lucid discussion of Technocracy in this week's issue of TIME, but was woefully disappointed. Your article, unlike almost everything else in TIME, was inept, amateurish...