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...late John William Navin Sullivan was an able mathematician, a gifted and lucid interpreter of physics, a lover of music, a searcher for beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...
Professor Ransom does not so much defend the obscurity of modern poets as give a lucid explanation of its cause. He says that poets, once bards, patriots and men of public importance, now seem wilfully determined to destroy the prestige that their predecessors have courted for generations. If they write "pure" poetry, like Wallace Stevens, their poems have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being...
ARCHITECTS OF IDEAS - Ernest R. Trattner - Carrick & Evans ($3.75). Beginning with Copernicus and ending with Einstein this book gives lucid explanations of what 15 scientific theoreticians have done for Science. Of more interest than Author Trattner's biographies are his accounts of vulgar errors, wrong theories and bad guesses for which scholars and scientists fought tooth & nail...
...whose superlatives could qualify as the blurb of the week, readers less attentive to the nuances of the art might have difficulty in seeing what the "novellas" gained by being three times as long as short stories. Said Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher of one story: "As beautifully simple, fresh, lucid and moving a recreation of a childhood and its ending as I have ever read." Said Short-Story Anthologist Edward J. O'Brien: "The art form that Boccaccio invented is born again full-blown in America at last." Said Novelist Dan Wickenden: "We have been rolling about...
Written in a spare, economical prose, Ship of the Line contains such lucid explanations of naval maneuvers that before they have finished its readers may feel they could sail a frigate themselves...