Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...messages to his chief while Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson authored another White Paper. It was a 12,000-word first-hand study of Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful but pitiable man. Sir Nevile had further broken precedent by writing...
...think she'll sooner prove a good soldier." But women have never believed him. In 1888 a Boston woman named Caroline Nichols formed the first all-woman symphony orchestra in the U. S. Her "Fadette Women's Orchestra" (named after the heroine of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette) barnstormed up & down the U. S. on Lyceum courses and vaudeville circuits, grossed more than half a million dollars before disbanding in 1920. Since Maestra Nichols first started swinging her mutton-chop sleeves many a woman's orchestra has been heard in the land. Since...
Brill gained notoriety last year as the host to several score undergraduates at a series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...
...various elements which have been brought together in Fogg Museum, may, at first glance, seem unrelated. They do, however, form an unified program for the purposes of vagabonding. They are joined to one another in the contrapuntal manner which characterizes a Dos Passos novel. Chronology, in the traditional sense of the word, is distorted; seemingly insignificant details are accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which...
...sculptor. Such creations as DAY and NIGHT, GENESIS and ORIOL, ROSS show a new and invigorating vision completely free from academic stodginess. In many respects Epstein occupies the same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others use the statue as the butt of obscene vilification...