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...collaboration with Father-in-law Cesare Lombroso, author of the theory that criminals are distinct biologic types with crime written all over their eyes, ears, chins and crania. This theory, now unfashionable, caused acute embarrassment to men with recessive chins and adhesive ear lobes, used to send Novelist Leo Tolstoy (then in his primitive Christian period) into literary tantrums. Historian Ferrero has set off a number of tantrums himself...
...grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, who turned down a Cabinet post as Secretary of the Navy under George Washington because he owned more ships than the Navy did. His father, the late Joe Lee Sr., was a famed humanitarian who once made a pilgrimage to the home of Leo Tolstoy and was called "the father of the American playground movement." Joe Jr. takes after...
...Tolstoy had no business to be born in Europe. He should have been an Indian sage, and then his exit to meditate in the wilderness would have ... troubled nobody...
Phil. 4d and 5 are frequently taken by Government majors. In the first you read such men as the Russian revolutionaries, Spencer and Tolstoy. Lewis gives you some good ideas, but on the whole the course is not well organized and not what it should be. In the second, Hocking, as always, gives his own point of view...
Once the Nazis get steamrolling down the Lowlands, the narrative picks up; by the time Dunkirk is evacuated, history supplies its pity and terror. A Tolstoy, or even a Malraux. might illuminate such action; Author Gibbs can only impair it. Such enormous human convulsions have more reality in newspapers and newsreels than they can ever hope to get as a weakly painted backdrop for the stock characters of a second-rate romance...