Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates will compete in this year's contest Friday, each giving a short oration in French as follows: "Les Relations Franco-Italiennes", by F. W. Condert '30; "M. Briand, M. Kellogg, et la Paix Mondiale", by Norman Winer '29: "E' influence Americaine en France", by R. T. Lyman Jr. '28: "La Politique de M. Poincare", by W. A. Fowlie '31: "Le Programme de M. Poincare", by C. W. Boyd '29: and "Les Dernieres Elections en France", by G. E. Stone...
...Story. The authors of Genesis could not have had more fun than Norman Douglas. In his version of the beginning, when "the thing called Sin had not yet been invented," there were gods in the Celestial Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient...
...Author. Norman Douglas divides his life into mystic twelves. His first twelve years he spent growing up (with Latin and Greek and a daily column of the dictionary by heart); the second in devotion to music, of which he is an accomplished votary; the next twelve in British diplomatic service to many strange countries; the next in writing erudite tracts on geology and archeology; and the latest twelve in more artistic though no less studied writing. His South Wind, which the needy author sold outright for ?75, is an esoteric masterpiece of exotic beauties, which has nevertheless gained wide enough...
...Norman Douglas lives in Africa, Capri, Florence. He loves human converse, hates fatuous human conventions. Contemptuous of modern standards of morality, he promises little boys a penny to be "bad," a thrashing for being "good." Among his friends have been Conrad, Henry James, and Scott Moncrieff, brilliant translator of Marcel Proust...
THOSE who read and liked "South Wind" have had to wait ten years for Norman Douglas' next book "In the Beginning." At last it is here, and although everybody is rushing around to snatch up the first editions, it is, frankly not worth waiting...