Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central character is Anthony Beavis, a dark-haired, full-lipped individual who looks like a meditative child. His particular artistic dislike is Proust, for he considers Proust's absorption with the past repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls...
...Family Relations, father of four, stirred bitter merriment among the nurses by pontificating: "To increase the number of superior children each year, educated young people should be encouraged to marry by increasing the circle of their acquaintances, by developing the social life of students (this applies to nurses in particular), and by reducing the economic pressure of marriage...
...Here the uncontradicted evidence shows that the plaintiff is actuated by the bona fide intent to give each and every patron a valid option to buy a particular dog. If such patrons choose to flaunt [sic] his good intentions and buy options to line their pockets with unholy gains they cannot thereby make a criminal out of him. Were the rule otherwise, every cotton and commodity broker or dealer in the land would be in jail before nightfall. Does anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery...
...religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus on "The Effective Church," he arose with some ready ideas on the matter...
CHOOSE A BRIGHT MORNING-Hillel Bernstein-Stokes ($2). In a worthy successor to L'Affaire Jones, Satirist Bernstein flits gracefully from light comedy to stinging irony, never wavering from his determination to ridicule dictators in general, Realmleader Hitler in particular...