Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reference: first four lines, TIME, Oct. 31. ["During the recent Czechoslovak crisis the British people scared worse than any other in Europe, and in the panic atmosphere of London . . ."]. Who's scared...
...archiepiscopal palace of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer last month, the Nazi Government of the Ostmark has systematically closed down Roman Catholic schools and seminaries, bundled monks out of their monasteries, arrested and harried the lower clergy. After the sack, Cardinal Innitzer (whom the U. S. Catholic hierarchy at its recent annual meeting praised as a "valiant spokesman") issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services and the ringing of bells...
...Directions of Norfolk, Conn, would soon publish Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. This was sensational news, since publishing Henry Miller is a task that might well make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...
Announcement of the U. S. publication of Tropic of Cancer was surprising literary news not only because of its underground reputation. It revealed the recent revival of interest in the neglected field of experimental writing-that cloudy area of modern letters with its little magazines, obscure poems, defiant manifestoes, communications from Ezra Pound. In Manhattan a plump, handsome periodical, Twice a Year, took up where The Dial left off a decade ago. In Paris appeared The Black Book, a novel by Lawrence Durrell, who gave promise of outdoing Henry Miller in the form that admirers call the dithyrambic novel...
Among other recipients in recent years have been the late Richard G. Ames '34, of Wayland, president of the Student Council and captain of the wrestling team; Chester K. Litman '35, of Brookline, a member of the football and track teams and high ranking student; Robert C. Hall '36, of Brookline, a member of the track team, the Student Council, the CRIMSON and Phi Beta Kappa; and Charles W. Kessler '37, Salem, who was an honor student, a member of the Varsity football team, and the Student Council...