Word: xanadu
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...contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully gathered data, perhaps arid enough, which immediately catches the fancy of both critics and public, and which is at once informative and a best seller. Such a book is Professor John Livingston Lowes' "The Road to Xanadu...
...CRIMSON's intent to review Mr. Lowes remarkable study at this particular time nor in this place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed...
Many noteworthy works of scholarship have been published, among which are "The Road to Xanadu", by Professor J.L. Lowes, A.M. '03; "The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century", by C.H. Haskins, Litt.D. (Hon.) '24, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science; "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti", by Folix Frankfurter, LL.B. '06, Byrne Professor of Administrative...
...Road to Xanadu" the long awaited work on Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Professor G. L. Lowes '05 is to be published on April 27. For the past seven or eight years Professor Lowes has been engaged in an exhaustive study of Coleridge manuscripts and books relating to the life and works of the poet...
...still recall and whistle his Look Out, Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback. He is now the official "incidentalist" for the serious metropolitan stage...