Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James E. Barrett Jr.--Thayer Hall; chairman, Union Committee; Student Council Freshman Affairs Committee and Elections Committee...
Among the editors who have later become prominent in various fields of activity are Messrs. Curtis Guild '81, Thomas William Lament '92, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, William Roscoe Thayer '81, the late Barrett Wendell '77, and Owen Wister...
Brightest bit of fantasy was the work of an expatriated Englishman named O'Connor Barrett, who had to outgrow a strait-laced start. Barrett's strict parents had talked Latin at dinner, limiting their conversation almost entirely to religion. In 1923, when he was 15, Barrett went to work in a furniture factory and subsequently carved hundreds of Chippendale chair legs. Says he: "Oh, how I hate Chippendale!" There was no Chippendale influence in his squatly intense Stalemate, which looked like a couple of ancients so intent on a game of chess that their bodies knottily reflected...
Fledgling Literary Critic William Barrett wondered whether his brethren had not been too quick to assume that the U.S. would eventually grow up and produce a culture of its own. Barrett recalled what a French monk in Carthage had told him when he looked in vain for relics of Carthaginian art: "They had none. They were not artists. They were business people . . . the Americans of antiquity...
...appointed are Wayne Barnett '50, James E. Barrett '51, Alvin Becker '51, Arthur W. Bingham '51, Samuel Butler '51, John Cowles, Jr. '51, Marvin Eiger '51, Fred A. Heim '50, Paul H. Ode '51, Lucian C. Parlato '50, and William C. Sawyer...