Word: berger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other Springfield standouts, according to Pickett, are Berger at 157 and Moses at 130. But the Gymnasts, he says, always field tough, well-balanced teams, and no Crimson wrestler can expect an easy contest tonight. Springfield, Pickett adds, is likely to prove "as tough for us as anyone we have faced...
...Berger will face varsity captain Joe Noble, looking to get back into winning form after absorbing his first loss of the year against Penn. Moses will meet Carl Kludt, also a loser in the Penn match and currently sporting a 1-1 season record...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...
There was still some British reserve. The overall effect of Pollock's overall-painted patterns, said the Spectator soberly, was "neurasthenic dazzle." Yet even the New Statesman's gloomy John Berger had at last swung to Pollock's side, comparing him to Actor James Dean as an unhappy genius in an age out of joint. Berger's best guess on Pollock's approach to art: "In desperation he made his theme the impossibility of finding a theme. Having the ability to speak, he acted dumb...
Earle's scholarly interest in existentialism took form in 1947, when he spent a year studying under Gaston Berger, a leading European phenomenologist. Existentialism was "very much in the air" in Europe at that time, and Earle went on to receive his degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles in 1948. Before going to France, he studied at the University of Chicago. "I studied in the classical tradition," he comments. "Chicago is a fine place for that sort of scholarship, but it does not have a very creative atmosphere...