Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor of an old Orpheum Theater backdrop of Versailles. And Ben Ames Williams, old Satevepost standby, was delivered of a 1,514-page Civil War novel...
...turn of the 18th century, according to Morison, there is evidence of students "actually having performed a stage play," but it was not until the 1760s that the situation began to get out of control, thereby necessitating the Corporation's severe pronouncement of 1762. Productions such as Addison's "Cato" took place in 1758, but care was taken that the drama did not exceed the limits of propriety. In 1765, a cryptic diary notation reads "Scholars punished at College for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the Devil...
With her devoted husband, Henry Maxwell Andrews, an investment banker with a cool, scholarly, finely whetted mind, she lives at Ibstone House, in the county of Buckinghamshire, 36 miles from London. There she prefers to be known as Mrs. Andrews. Ibstone is an 18th Century manor house whose back windows command one of the noblest vistas in southern England-broad fields falling away to a deep valley in the Chiltern Hills. Around the house lies the 85-acre farm, where the Andrewses raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12:30 noon, CBS). Adam Smith's 18th Century plea for international free trade tuned to 1947 economics...
Harvard finishers: Bill Baker, 18th; John Cogan, 28th; Captain Huna Rosenfeld, 29th; Joe Leeming, 39th; George Anderson, 48th; Arden Albee, 54th, Harvard Wilbur, 58th...