Word: bernards
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That strategy is only partly successful, since West prefers the exaggerated phrase. His father is "a very big man indeed." As for Wells' opponents, Henry James is charged with literary dictatorship and George Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body...
...literature that the sport has inspired, it is Bernard Malamud who best combined the mythic and the realistic streams of America's baseball consciousness. The Natural, published in 1952, reads as if Ring Lardner and Sir Thomas Malory had simultaneously invaded Malamud's sensibility, joining their gifts to produce an almost flawless first novel...
...with the Corporation Monday afternoon.... Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky will receive an honorary degree at Branders University's Commencement exercises May 20. He will be awarded a doctorate in Humane Letters. Rosovsky reportedly turned down the Brandeis presidency during his tenure as dean.....New Archbishop of Boston Bernard F. Law '53 will meet with Catholic undergraduates here Monday night...
...Bernard L. Neville...
Starr is the 25th Harvard affiliate to garner a Pulitzer prize. His predecessors include the writer Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38. Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn. Professor Robert W. Coles '50 and Baird Professor of Science Edwin O. Wilson, among others...