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...dismissal of a number of popular teachers during the past few years, was not caused solely by a shrinking budget or by misguided publicity seekers, but by administrative incompetency, which he lays alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simon President Conant's doorstep...
...nonce the Faculty seems alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simply, they distrust President Conant ... the will of President Conant is frankly suspect...
...late peace (1928-30, precisely) that has yet appeared. Author Henriques, 34, is a major in the regular army. He writes with authority and irony of the military mind ("[the general] looked on the war as a pitiful era of confusion for the army, a lapse that must never recur . . ."), with intimate affection of the quieter moments of routine ("Like the Lord's Prayer, you had it all by heart . . . feet, head, belly, legs; nearside, offside, eyes, nose, dock; hoof-pick, body-brush, dandy-brush, sponge, stable-rubber, wisp . . . 'Stables' hour was as sacred as the twenty...
Story. As readers hack their way through the thorny pages of Finnegans Wake, they become aware of certain figures and phrases that recur frequently-H. C. Earwicker, Anna Livia, Maggie, Guinness, Phoenix Park, the River Liffey that curves through Dublin. Tracing these characters and places as they bob in and out of apparently unrelated words and sentences, Critic Edmund Wilson has worked out the most intelligible interpretation of the book, supported by Joyce's own statement that, as Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape...
...Dali has recorded is as specialized as it is vivid. Once a boy wonder at copying Vermeer and Leonardo, he discovered by self-analysis in Paris that he had a persecution complex (paranoia). His oil technique remains that of a brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that he repeats himself...