Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seldes is boring in his regurgitation and melodrama, he is delightful and cutting in his examination of whether America possesses a culture. This hundred page introduction is thoroughly worth the price of admission. Seizing upon quotation after quotation from the writings of expatriated aesthetes, intellectual dilettantes, and sycophantic snobs, Mr. Seldes revels in defending American culture. With a deft touch, which reveals Selders'' abilities as a social critic if not as an economic theorist, he hurls the vaporings of the effects back into their very teeth. American culture, like American political psychology, is boisterous, unashamed, and preeminently honest even about...
...Jereszy Fitelberg. Bartlett and Robertson, two piano artists, are to play Bach's Concerto in C minor and Mozart's Concerto in E flat, and the concert concludes with d'Indy's Concerto for piano,l flute, cello, and string orchestra. This promises to be a very unusual and worth-while evening...
...found snow in which to ski and rub the protesting faces of their loves. And all to the great irritation of the Vagabond, shouting a Happy New Year. Then and there he makes a solemn vow never to wish more than one such felicitation. Repetition strains the worth of sentiment. Besides, the wisdom of being happy about the New Year is doubtful. Better to wish a Happy Mid-Year's or a Merry Reading Period... The Vagabond ambles aimlessly, until he meets with a Radcliffe friend... A story of the Radcliffe freshman who, in the act of stealing an extra...
...steady rise in excess bank reserves. Last summer when the figure for excess reserves was around $3,000,000,000, Chairman Eccles boosted reserve requirements 50%, a move which reduced the total to $1,800,000,000. Since then some $500,000,000 worth of gold has flowed into the U. S., a sum which will show up as excess reserves after the year end. Before the winter is over reserve requirements will probably be upped a second time. The sterilization plan was designed to keep the total of excess reserves, which represent perhaps ten times as much in potential...
...TIMES 3-William Saroyan-Conference Press ($2.50). Nine "stories," each "explained" in an introductory note, by the daring young man who was the U. S. literary trapeze sensation of 1934. Author Saroyan is "delighted to announce that this book is not worth two dollars and fifty cents. An autographed copy of this book is not worth two dollars. ..." Readers whom Saroyan does not make mad will find 3 Times 3 worth reading...