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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though shrewd Publishers Simon & Schuster announce it as their "sincere belief" that no such personal and intimate autobiography has been written since Rousseau's Confessions, many a plain reader will feel that Powys has dodged the point. His text is excellent: "If all the persons who wrote autobiographies would dare to put down the things that in their life have actually caused them their most intense misery, it would be a much greater boon than all these testy justifications of public actions." But, like many a sermon, Author Powys' is more exhibitionistic than instructive, and it goes...
...also includes some definite conclusions which are not justified by the amount of experimental information which has been obtained. Furthermore, the reporter failed to mention the valuable work performed by the American Radio Relay League, the Mount Washington Observatory, and numerous other collaborating groups. In the headlines and text my personal contribution is greatly overemphasized, without any mention of the graduate student who has done most of the work...
...article is instructive. Several of the Boston papers copied the story; and on November 13, a new version appeared in a well-known morning paper. The "rewrite" editor rephrased the erroneous conclusions in a more emphatic and specific form, and attributed them directly to me. In fact the entire text now conveys the impression of a direct personal interview; and I find it necessary to send out letters of explanation to all of our collaborators, in order to reduce the damage to my own reputation, and to the reputation of the University...
...text of the telegram follows: "In case Oxford cannot accept affirmative of censorship resolution, would suggest split team debate on same subject, one Oxford, one Harvard speaker on each side. Suggest Oxford affirmative man send us two affirmative arguments, designating preference for one. Harvard negative man will submit two negative arguments, designating preference for one. This exchange to be made by November 21. Would this suit you and London? Can you communicate this with London and Oxford immediately in case Oxford has not replied to previous cable...
...introduction, composed of literary comment which ordinarily would appear at the end of the book in the form of notes. The quotations in this introduction, together with the compiler's remarks, combine in an informal and pleasantly rambling discourse which stimulates the reader's interest in the text to which it applies. Reading it, we can almost hear Mr. Copeland conversing in his old study in Hollis on a score of literary matters that come to mind in the course of an easy talk...