Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit to Felix's--dinner with the Housemaster tonight. The Class very dull, the Vagabond scribbling little notes on the cover of his notebook...
...recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained about the same...
...Eddington, Jeans, Russell, Sullivan and Wells are widely read, sometimes even become bestsellers. That books-about-scientists might also have a popular appeal was proved by Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book on the Great Naturalists, from Aristotle to Fabre. Smart Publisher Schuster wrote the incoherently enthusiastic blurb himself, said he meant every word of it. Excerpt: "The sound of wings is in this book, the murmur of the forest, eons of time, undreamed by Moses, the wilderness itself...
Promises made by most first novels are rash. But the promise of Katharine Hamill's Swamp Shadow has good collateral behind it. Her tale of poor whites on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is neither dreary case-history nor melodrama plastered together with notebook dialect, but an ably written, objectively presented story of some forgotten men & women...
...Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson's Travels in Two Democracies. At first sight merely a notebook of scattered impressions of things seen & heard, it has a cumulative effect less personal than Sheean & Co., more sharply focused than Mark Sullivan, more impressive than either. Ticketed as a literary critic, Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson a few years ago found his position too academic in a day "when accuracy...