Word: virginia
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This book, a companion to Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth" and "The Moment," and to her earlier "Common Readers," is probably the last volume of her essays which will be published. Many of the essays in the book have appeared separately before. Written at various times in the last 20 years of her life, they represent a wide variety of subjects, from a dissertation on the novels of Turgenev to a plea for the abolition of book reviewers...
...large body of the essays in this volume could be loosely called literary biography. These are brief and charming sketches, some of famous men, Conrad, Hardy, Oliver Goldsmith, and some of obscure figures, known only through a terse diary or a packet of family letters. In all of them, Virginia Woolf exercises her talent of character-drawing. She uses with extraordinary deftness little details about her subjects' lives and periods; her essays sparkle even when the man is very dull...
...Stinks!" The boss of the Times's vast local, national and foreign news-gathering and news-editing machine is Managing Editor Edwin Leland James, 59. Jaunty "Jimmy" James was a star reporter himself during World War I and in postwar Paris. A 35-year veteran of the Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy and shouting...
...widow, Virginia Carroll did a creative job. Although she got off to a slow start, she warmed up to her role in the later acts and succeeded quite nicely in fulfilling the requirements of a Henry James grand fence. John Mannich was amusing as Captain Prime. His friendly sheepishness and flashes of puzzlement at his plight were fun to watch...
...From Virginia to Dartmouth, Eastern colleges begin eliminations this week in groups of four teams. Princeton, Columbia, Yale, and a "dark horse" Harvard team play over the long, tough Salem course, with the Crimson meeting Columbia this afternoon and Yale and Princeton tomorrow. Columbia should not be too much trouble, but Yale and Princeton have top-flight teams...