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...anthology of the highest common factors in world religion and metaphysical systems." For his own craft as novelist and poet, Aldous Huxley now has small respect. Says Sebastian in Time Must Have a Stop: "Even the best play or narrative is merely glorified gossip. . . . And lyric poetry? Just 'Ow!' or 'Oo-ooh!'or 'Nyum-nyum!' or 'Damn!' or 'Darling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huxleyan Heaven and Earth | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Married. Louise Booth Morley, 23, daughter of Author Christopher Morley, London OW Idea girl; and Captain James A. Cochrane, 24, bemedaled (D.S.O., M.C.) Queens Own Cameron Highlander; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Society lad their eyes open. They heard a sinewy young Negro woman play the solid, unpretentious, flesh-&-bone kind of jazz piano that is expected from such vigorous Negro masters as James P. Johnson. Serene, reticent, sloe-eyed Mary Lou Williams was not selling a pretty face, or a ow decolletage, or tricksy swinging of Bach or Chopin. She was playing blues, stomps and boogie-woogie in the native Afro-American way-an art in which, at 33, she is already a veteran. Yet Mary Lou Williams felt nervous: for the first time in 6 years she was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No Kitten on the Keys | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Well, cor stone the crows," said the Sweep. " 'ow do you think things are gettin' along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nat Gubbins | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Coventry. London, Manchester. Ow I wish I could come up with a Jerry plane. I would show them. Today my steward put my knife spoon and fork in bucket of water to wash then forgot they were there, chooked water overboard with them in it. I could of chooked im overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: At Sea: Voice From Grimsby | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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