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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reference your review of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile...
Anything else? Well--yes and no for this week. But next week we'll review the spots which only the junior officers and people in the know in Boston go to to get away from the crowd...
Colonel William B. Cleary, Commandant of the Harvard Chaplain School. Respected the students, and following the speech by President Conant, took the Review which was presented
Christmas Package. The typical Lisle Bell review is a 200-or 300-word synthesis, usually of a light novel, with its plot outlined, setting and characters identified in one sentence, the author's distinctive quality set down accurately in unhackneyed terms in another, and the paragraph wound up as neatly as a Christmas package, with an amiable ironic phrase. His reviews are seldom malicious, very rarely given to unqualified praise. But only experts, looking back over Bell's collected works, can appreciate how outspoken he has been about many forgotten figures among literature's briefly great. Occasionally...
Australians were chuckling last week over a literary hoax as fantastic as a duckbilled platypus. Editor Max Harris, of Adelaide's long-haired little review, Angry Penguins, had introduced the work of a new poet named Ern Malley with a 30-page rhapsody explaining, with deadly and Dadaistic earnestness, why Malley was "one of the two giants of contemporary Australian poetry...