Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above the swarm of books on Harvard life and Harvard traditions has appeared one predestined to stand as the most authoritive, the richest and the fullest. Only one man is equipped with the experience and information to write such a classic, and that is President Emeritus Eliot. Almost three-quarters of a century of continuous contact with Harvard have fitted him preeminently to collect the traditions and expound the doctrines which have guided Harvard men for a dozen generations...
...reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof perceptibly. The temptation is to write reams about Balieff; his explanation that since the audience did not understand Italian, "La Grande Opera Italiana" would have to be sung in Russian,-his laudable attempt to teach the Russian language in one lesson, for as he says, it is so easy that every child of six speaks it in Russia...
...there seems no reason why I should not write a few words concerning my friend and collaborator, Stephen Vincent Benét. Logrolling? If you wish, you may call it that. I've often told the story of our first meeting at Yale, when he was a Freshman and I was a Sophomore, and I sought him out in the top floor of a gloomy dormitory where he was gayly pitching pennies of a Winter afternoon. Shortly after that, S. V. B. published his first book of poems. Since then he has published two others and three novels. Until his latest...
Despite the warnings that have been given by Dr. Banting, discoverer of insulin, and numerous other physicians using it, many people, misled by newspaper publicity, believe they now bear charmed lives if only they can secure insulin. Diabetics write Mr. McCann letters asking : "Do you think it safe to eat anything?" "How much candy may I now allow myself daily?" "Where can I buy insulin to take with my meals...
...dark eyes, nervous movements, ejaculatory speech, bitter mind, all suddenly are brought to bear upon the impossible and it is accomplished. He does too much. His plays just miss being brilliant. His novels suffer from a lack of taste which would undoubtedly be ironed out in a second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours. It's not a bad yarn. I am told, however, that, dictating...