Word: toed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Spoiled Children has for heroine a Paris Stock Exchange broker's daughter, Agnes Boussardel, who ups and goes to the University of California. There she loves a 200% American with Indian blood, leads the fast, far-weekending, Sierra-smitten life of the Golden West. Back in France she...
Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway...
Published in the U. S. are one literary annual and one semi-annual of proved vitality. They are New Directions in Prose & Poetry, published by New Directions in Norfolk, Conn., and Twice A Year, a Semi-Annual Journal of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties, published by Twice A Year...
New Directions has more than one string to its bow and last fortnight produced three redeeming books:
¶ A book of short stories and poems, The World I Breathe, introducing to the generality of U. S. readers a young Welsh writer named Dylan Thomas whose druidical Welshness is probably without modern parallel. Greatly gifted, enormously mannered, his Merlinesque-magic dream stories were best when least diffuse, distinguished...