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...became the butt for town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin for the only possible interpretation is that...
...program will open with Harvard singing alone Morley's "Shoot False Love," the "Miserere" of Allegri, and Handel's "When His Loud Voice." Mozart's "Dir, Seele des Weltalls" from the "Music for the Freemasous," and two folk songs, "Crudele Irene" and "Bonnic Dundee," after which the two glee clubs will combine to sing the remaining three numbers...
...Anon., I take it, is a faithful reader of the "Saturday Review," perhaps even that legendary figure, the Oldest Living Subscriber. From his letter, one would never think that he regularly perused those delightful chatter columns of Christopher Morley and P. Quercus which are distinguished features of the "Review." For he seems to be one of those unfortunate souls that are devoid of the sense of humor that characterizes the work of Messrs. Morley and Quercus...
...light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination at the same instant. This historic experiment discredited the ether-concept. Eighteen years later Albert Einstein posited the central...
...denied that Mr. Morley gives a picture of the American scene which might well be intensely interesting a hundred years hence. But it seems doubtful that any one will be reading his books even twenty years hence, and at present Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Menken giving life to observation by an injection of thought, reduce Mr. Morley's work to the status of momentarily enjoyable small talk by a nice, whimsical man with an engaging manner and not much else...