Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another "younger" writer, whose book Shane you mentioned with approbation, wasn't named at all. "No story exists without an author, so let the name of Jack Schaefer be blazoned on your pages. He wrote Shane...
That Indefinable Something. Even apart from the good fortune of being born to culture and marrying wealth, Christian Herter has displayed over the years what 18th century Author Horace Walpole called "serendipity"-the gift (possessed by the heroes of an old tale, The Three Princes of Serendip) of finding good things without having to seek them. He has never sought a new job, says Herter, because he always liked whatever he was doing; he was often urged or invited. "Almost every step I've taken," he says, "was a pure fluke...
...author of four books, including The Life of the Soul, The Life of the Church, The Great Realities, Dr. Miller has also taught a course at the Divinity School on the novels of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus and Graham Greene. His other major interest, surprising for a Baptist, is liturgy. Said he last week: "I believe the act of worship is the church's most distinctive contribution to society. There is no other source of power which will enable society to achieve any sort of unity...
...Author Lansing, a onetime United Press rewriteman and Collier's staff writer, draws heavily on scholarly studies of the expedition, has also carefully rechecked the sources. And he has a good newspaperman's respect for telling in unexcited prose the breathless story of men in peril. Dominating all is Shackleton, the incredible leader, the fool-hero who never surrendered. Shackleton was dead within six years, felled by a heart attack at 48, as he mounted yet another assault on Antarctica. It may have been just as well. His finest hour as an explorer was when he brought...
...Cummings '15, prominent American poet, will read his poems, and make certain incidental remarks this Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Cummings is the author of Xaipe, The Enormous Room, and many other works...