Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back of its hand to Alan Moorehead, who had just quit the Express to write more books. The Express warned its readers that perhaps the biography was not so authentic after all (though most of Fleet Street guessed that Monty had read and approved it). In an acid review in the Express, Brigadier A. H. Head (retired), a Conservative M.P., snorted that some passages dealing with top-level goings-on "are filled with inaccuracies and even distortions. [They] have that gossipy, irresponsible touch associated more with the works of [Harry] Butcher and [Ralph] Ingersoll...
Back to Britain. Long before the war (1929-34), Agar had been in London as freelancer, literary editor of the English Review and correspondent for the Courier-Journal. When the Courier's owner Robert Bingham was sent to England as Ambassador by F.D.R., he and son Barry enthusiastically plotted Agar's future, made him a C-J columnist in 1935, editor in 1940. In 1942 he resigned to join the Navy (he had been an enlisted man in World...
Harvard Historian Schlesinger* is almost apologetic about this busman's holiday-a review of American books of etiquette from the 17th Century to the present day. "Nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," he wrote; "the rise and progress of courtesy . . . deserves attention...
...same time, he announced that a leaflet setting forth the aims, plans, and a review of the courses now being offered in General Education would be distributed in the dining halls early next week, probably Monday or Tuesday. the sheet, Kuhn said, would be designed to acquaint students with the issues and ideas involved in the program which got underway this fall...
Jacques-of-All-Letters Philippe Soupault, one of the founding fathers of surrealism, examined love-in-the-U.S., shuddered at what he saw, reported in the French review Modern Times that "Americans consider a love affair in the same light as a crime." The fear of love, he observed, produces nervous disorders, and "there are more maladjusted people in America than in any other country in the world...