Word: old
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death of a Bachelor brings to his bedside a group of old friends who find a letter concerning their wives which changes their opinion of the deceased. Andreas Thameyer's Last Letter is a treatise on the effect of shock during pregnancy, written before his suicide, explaining to the world that the Negro child his wife had borne him was the result of such a shock. It is instantly amusing because between the lines one perceives that Andreas Thameyer knew his wife had made him a cuckold...
Called "The essence of Vienna" by everyone but the Viennese, Author Schnitzler gained a reputation for gay cynicism before the War. Since that time his work suggests an aging literary "master," sitting in an old fashioned study with blinded windows, busy with devious, psychological speculations and memories. He is a doctor, and a literary nerve specialist...
...perennially provocative commentator on the U. S. college scene is Princeton's judicious, pince-nezzed. slow-spoken Dean Christian Gauss. His current contributions have been in the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "The Good Old Times." Excerpts...
...When the old graduate returns to his college and finds everything changed, his attitude illustrates the working of a law of psychology. He tells you first of all that undergraduates are younger now than they were in his time. This, we have seen, is a mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that...
...when he concluded sadly, 'No, and he never was.' So it is with the college undergraduate. It is true that in many respects he is not the man he used to be. The record seems to indicate, however, that he never was the man whom the overrueful old graduate imagines him to have been...