Word: attics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...list of University prize winners announced Saturday, Mason Hammond '25 of Nahant, who won a Rhodes scholarship earlier this year, was named the winner of two Bowdoin prizes for his translations into Attic Greek and into Latin. Walter Thomas Pattison '25 of Wilmette, Ill., was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature for his essay dealing with the Spanish writing of the Golden Age. A Frederick Sheldon Fellowship in Anthropology was awarded to Carleton Stevens Coon of Wakefield...
...music pealing through the naves and transepts of that most vast of all cathedrals--the Cathedral of the Human Spirit.... And these little flames of talent Copey, the lamp-lighter, tended faithfully (albeit somewhat brusquely on occasion, yet with his Jeremiads over a bad sentence over savored with Attic salt.) And the flames brightened and kindled other flames, as the Divine law of life is; and their lamps moved hither and yon, bringing into places that had been dark before, light and joy and high intelligence and immortal beauty...
...Ahmed Zogu reports "all quiet along the Adriatic", but Fan Noli talks darkly of suppression, of Serbian intervention, of a Russian army, and of a threatened partition of Albania by Italy and Jugo-Slavia. And during the period of his exile he sits in his little attic in Vienna and writes and writes and writes...
...shedding of his hair, lost for him the fickle favor of his people. And the accession of financial, and, therefore, of political strength, through the marriage of his daughter to the American millionaire Leeds, has been counterbalanced by the generous openhandedness of American Greeks, who look back to Attic aridity, through a veil of hazy recollection, a ward the cause of the Republic...
Thomas Hardy, Sinclair Lewis, the late Anatole France have variously been talked of as the best known of contemporary writers. But the dwelling-place of renown is not always in the high places. The Sophisticati may sneer; but the reading public extends even to the scullery and the attic. A census of that mysterious body would not impossibly reveal an equal extent of the fame of humbler wielders of the pen. The laughter of Olympus is no barrier to the literary delectation of the barely literate...