Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...march of education is a restless one, it knows no barriers of race or nationality in its swift progress. The center of gravity, political, economic, educational, is shifting westward still, contemporary sages tell us. It would be definitely valuable, then, to disprove Mr. Kipling's stern address to the white race. With such a shift comes necessary readjustment. And only by the exchange of understanding for ignorance can readjustment be facilitated...
MONOGRAM - G. B. Stern - Macmillan...
...there is more than one way to kill a cat. Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her admirers, the plenty was a surfeit...
...Author Stern's autobiographical scheme was also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example...
Boat IV: stroke, David Emerson '38; 7, Robert M. Drysdale Jr. '36; 6, William N. Dearborn '38; 5, Richard M. Stern '37; 4, Francis E. Maser '38; 3, Roger W. Drury '36; 2, George A. Matteson Jr. '36; how, Lawrence Mills '37; and cox, Roswell B. Paine '39. The last three boats will go out together at 4.30 o'clock...