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Fernande Olivier, a model who lived with him then and for the next 14 years, has said he was ". . . small, black, stubby, unquiet, disquieting, with sombre, deep, piercing, strange, almost fixed eyes. Awkward gestures, feminine hands, ill-dressed, ill-cared for. A thick, black, brilliant forelock divided the intelligent protuberant forehead. Half-bohemian, half-workman in his dress; his overlong hair swept the collar of a tired coat...
...into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.' In this troubled century the burden is to be borne not by one individual or by one group but by those who live in many lands. . . In this unquiet modern world which inventions have compressed to the size of Emerson's America we have need not so much for the America scholar as for the mutual understanding of a multitude of scholars in every country who will take up into themselves all the hopes of the future...
...Tuesday, March 26, came the biggest stock market crash in Coolidge-Hoover history. For a week the market had been unquiet and harassed. Beginning with Wednesday, March 20, the market had registered falling prices, small recessions every...
...matter. God the Father in a tunic of blue crepe-de-chine, throned among his squadrons on the ceiling of Mrs. Aldwinkle's best bedroom, does not matter, for Aldous Huxley has made these people, not in the image of the Omnipotent, but in his own. It is the unquiet imp of his own self-consciousness that squirms in each. He capitalizes self-consciousness as a literary idea. Like Jehovah, and better than any man since, he understands the implication of that famed formula, I am. His writing is a gallery of many mirrors, variously awry, each reflecting the pale...
...poem that one goes back to--a mysterious poem full of echoing cadences and subtly turning, twisting, rhythms, a poem that breathes the unquiet beauty of recollected dreams...