Word: muir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ugly Duchess THE UGLY DUCHESS?Lion Feuchtwanger (translated by Willa & Edwin Muir)?Viking...
...swimming meet open to all members of the University, including both graduate and undergraduate schools, will be held this afternoon at the Big Tree swimming pool. A program of six events has been, arranged by D. J. Kelly, Director of Physical Education, and Robert Muir, instructor in swimming at the Big Tree Pool...
Winners of first, second, and third places will receive medals, according to an announcement made last night. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Muir will probably act as judges...
...Muir's first novel has something of the structural development of a fugue. Its main theme is the simple story of Hans, an idiot boy, who at first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life...
...Muir's analysis of the idiot's mind is more intense than the acuteness of a clinical report, for he sharply transmits to the reader the emotional reaction to large events, strained through a limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills of his characters, and the movement of successive mutations of superiority and inferiority mark the progressions in the plot. Mr. Muir's psychology, symbolism, and philosophy are inextricably dove-tailed, while the constant flux of affirmation and negation in the mind of Hans may be capable of many interpretations. There...