Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister MacDonald, Lady Houston picked a likely horse last year, named him "R. B. Bennett" and had the satisfaction of seeing him win the North Derby at Newcastle. Last week in her large fore-cabin aboard The Liberty she haughtily received the manager of London's Saturday Review, which she owns. Cringingly he told her that the leading wholesale newsdealers of Great Britain, on advice of their solicitors, had refused to distribute the next copy of the Saturday Review if it should contain, as planned, Lady Houston's personally penned opinion of the Prime Minister...
Apropos of the U. S.'s recently upped naval building program (TIME, July 10, et seq.) and before the British Admiralty retorted in kind (see col. 1), Lady Houston had written for her Saturday Review that Prime Minister MacDonald was "squandering millions on peace conferences" while he let the Empire's defense forces go to ruin. This was only to be expected, she slashed, from a man who, like Scot MacDonald, urged British munitions workers to strike during the War at a time when British soldiers at the front were short of shells. "How can you be secure...
Perspiring, the Saturday Review's manager finally argued irate Dame Lucy into withdrawing the two most offensive paragraphs of her article from copies of the Saturday Review intended for the wholesale news dealers. "But I shall keep on in some other way!" she declared, repeating her determination not to let the British lion remain what she calls "a toothless old lap dog!" Next day itinerant vendors hawked furtively on the streets of London a special, unexpurgated issue of the Saturday Review...
...Harvard Bondage" is written four or five times in the first week of every composition course, especially English A. It contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...
...trouble with the Critic, if I may end an unpleasant review with advice, is that it does not criticize. Nothing in this issue violates the policies of the Harvard publications against which the editors of the Critic were protesting a year ago. Nothing in it is sufficiently novel, arresting or unorthodox to justify the Critic's existence as a separate publication. If it is not to be more of a gadfly than this, it ought to merge with an older sheet and boost the advertising rates. I trust that it will not. Harvard can use some gadflies, but they...