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Goldwater of New York University has done a more scholarly job of keeping his eye on the ball, shows more intimate knowledge of modem pictures than Christine Herter. The Primitivist kickoff came during the last century, when Europeans began to envy the free life of savages, began to see something valuable in their...
...BASIC WRITINGS OF SIGMUND FREUD-Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill-Modem Library...
...maximum. There was a tragic irony about the eclipse which on Tuesday of this week passed for thousands of miles across the tropical wastes of the Pacific Ocean. At its noon point, totality lasted 7 min. 4 sec., longer than any eclipse since the rise of modem astronomy, longer in fact than any since the year 699 A. D. But the noon point was 1,800 miles from any land. Precision measurements from the swaying deck of a ship are out of the question...
More than 15,000 parts go into the average modem car and each part must be at the right spot at precisely the right time. So perfect is the planning that a car scheduled to be blue, picks up its blue wheels at one place on the assembly line, its blue body at another, its blue lights at still another, all having come off the conveyor belts in the proper order with, perhaps, red parts just before, green parts just after...
John Erskine's formula-recasting romantic old tales in ironic, belittling modem dialog-caught the public fancy, made his Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) a U. S. bestseller. The formula has worn a little thin, but Erskine tales still make pleasant enough reading. Erskine admirers may solace themselves by reflecting that although Anatole France would have done them better, many a Cabellian would have done them worse. In adapting the Tristan legend to his scheme, Author Erskine has of course ousted Tristan from the hero's place, made minor Palamede the heroic figure. Palamede...