Word: marginalia
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...fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have meant instant war. Of such diplomats as Russia's Isvolsky, Austria's Berchtold, England's Grey...
Last week Dr. Finch for a second time traveled all the way from Idaho to Washington. He received the same presidential commission which had been prepared for his false inauguration last month. This time it was signed and the pencilled marginalia about the P. M. G. was erased...
WHEN Mr. Raysor states, in his admirable introduction to this first complete and accurate edition of Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism, that "the fragment was the literary genre which was natural to Coleridge, and only in the fragments of marginalia was he entirely himself," he anticipates the present reviewer's reaction to the work in hand. In the first of these two carefully edited volumes appear all of those extant fragments while in the second are contained the reports of the poet's numerous lectures on the subject...