Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking more than one leaf from the same notebook which Authors Dos Passos and Alfred Doblin used, which Maestro James Joyce used before them, Halper has neatly stitched together a story contemporary, kaleidoscopically eye-witnessing as a newsreel, but more dramatically edited than most cinema. Union Square's action is more continuous but less comprehensive than Dos Passos' more ambitious book. With a half-dozen main characters, a score of walk-on parts, the story gives an animated, life-like cross-section of teeming Manhattan...
Most authors keep notebooks. In them they jot down Ideas for future reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have to be. Many a note-jotting author collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice...
Before the invention of printing lectures were the chief means of conveying factual knowledge. Today, when books of every sort abound, there is no longer need for a "transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's, without its passing through the mind of either." Lectures which are little more than an oral correspondence course have no place in the college...
...necessarily fulfilled the functions of text-books. Even when professors are careful to present something more than standard text-book material, their courses are likely to lack vitality. There is an inevitable tendency toward that familiar process, the transfer of information from the teacher's to the student's notebook without passing through the head of either. The greatest influence on that tendency is, of course, the personality of the instructor, but too many have neglected the most effective stimulating tool available, class discussion...
...think, he should be coming to these islands?--long after he had retired for the night. And they never dreamed that while they talked Mr. J. M. Synge listened from his room through a crack in the ceiling and copied their strange idioms into a little notebook...