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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advice from New Haven late last night established the report that a large delegation of the Yale Record was enroute for Cambridge in search of their kidnapped bulldog, Handsome...
...When I finally settled down to completing the manuscript I did not bother de Kruif. ... I undertook a series of expeditions in search of first hand material. My first objective naturally was Dr. Aristides Agramonte, the single surviving member of the Reed Commission. I wrote him. ... On the morning after I had written, the New York Times published the announcement of his death. . . . "The play is to be considered a celebration rather than a representation. I have called it 'Yellow Jack - a History.' The subtitle is pretentious and I have used it in the hope that it will...
...then things really began to happen to the Oppermanns. Berthold, confronted with the choice of a public recantation or expulsion from his school, committed suicide. Gustav, who had signed a manifesto against the Nazis, was persuaded to flee the country just before a raiding party came to ''search" his house. Martin was arrested in the middle of the night, taken to jail and beaten. Edgar was expelled from his hospital; on the bandages of the patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been shameless enough to allow myself to be treated...
Betrayed by a henchman, the suave cracksman is beset by the police who search for X. How can he protect himself? He must find X, he cannily reasons. Moreover, if he finds X, he will be in a most strategic position to give up his evil ways and claim the boon of love which he had already won from the Commissioner's daughter...
...touching it is that a poet should guide us to the true light and initiate us into the ways of wisdom! When in our eternal search for the causes of war statesmen and scholars fall us, there is still nothing to fear. For Ezra Pound is still with us, ever ready in his own subtle way to show us the truths that we seek. Here indeed, is a guide worth following. He was among the first to give a meaning to meaningless words by raising them from small to large type. But his contribution is really far greater than that...