Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters. I have been boycotted and spurned. I say now that this generation is the most sterile of any there has been in the way of literature. Not one of my living contemporaries is worth talking about. . . . Conrad's work will be dead in a year. Anyone could write the stuff he wrote about barges floating in green-blue hazes. . . . Thomas Hardy couldn't write two lines of correct English and . . . had no insight into human nature...
...present. It was called Alice's Adventures Underground; there were about 40 pictures in it and a tremendous number of conversations. The meticulous manuscript which Mr. Dodgson gave to Alice was read by some of his friends as well as, doubtless, by hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many incidents which had been omitted in the other, such as the mad tea-party, the caucus race, the Cheshire...
...mathematics professor who was its author, naturally signed Alice with the name he had used before, for his more casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis...
...university executive had to spend on detail work. He, inexperienced, was no doubt expected to be at his desk from dawn until evensong. But, instead, he was found in his office about half as often as his predecessor. He wandered about the campus, made trips to Manhattan, continued to write for magazines. And the University of Wisconsin got along very nicely; it even progressed; Alexander Meiklejohn was brought out to form an experimental college; there was much talk of the "great work" Glenn Frank was doing...
...young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents] can read and write the English language?" So Ma and Pa go to night school. One day, when Ma is reciting the Gettysburg Address at home, she hears that her son had been killed in the World War while saving the life of Hugh Bradleigh, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Then follows...