Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Premier Mussolini nor Fascist book censors saw anything amiss with Flying Over Ethiopian Mountain Ranges by Vittorio Mussolini, a 150-page book published last week in Rome. "My purpose is to have Italian youth learn from a young man," wrote Author Vittorio, ''what it feels like to be fighting a war when only 20 years of age, and to be above war's sorrows, seeing only its beauties...
...gets 80% of all original insertions because each morning he makes a shoptalk round of funeral parlors, calls morticians by their first names, after lunch goes to his Record desk where undertakers telephone a steady stream of death notices. Each evening he carefully follows every notice into the printed page, then trollies home at 1:15 a.m., sits up half-an-hour with a cigar for a final paternal check on the accuracy of the Record's death notice column...
Last week she described just how different it was. Her 318-page volume was crowded with characteristic Gertrude Stein incoherencies, lucid passages about herself and Miss Toklas. malicious portraits of other celebrities, scrambled philosophical observations, comments on history, drunks, dogs,, revolutions, writing, painting, genius, the Stein family, the U. S. landscape-and, above all, "about is money money or isn't money money...
...been Done Early in the Seventies"), many newspaper rhymesters, Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks. ephemeral fragments of minor living poets, to make other future revisions seem likely...
tions, Dr. yagts has written a -page volume that is less a history than a monumental, smoothly-composed, historical essay on the nature of the military mind...