Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...
...Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, who flew to Warm Springs for a conference on War Debts. Earlier in the week Secretary of State Stimson had telephoned the President-elect the contents of a British note accepting, with reservations, the invitation to confer on War Debts and related problems after March 4. Two days later Sir Ronald was ordered back to London to advise His Majesty's Government on U. S. debt ideas.* Again by telephone Mr. Roosevelt told the State Department he would like to see the Ambassador before he sailed this week. The President-elect outlined his debt ideas...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be with-held...
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...
Some of Huxley's notes: The Nature of Love, Physical Passion, Old Age, Progress, Money, Comic Poetry, Obscurity in Poetry. God, Death. Authors quoted range from Sappho to Paul Valery, include many passages from U. S. Poet Walt Whitman but only one from a living English poet, William Henry Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish...