Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major value of the book--to this Montrealer, at least-seems to lie in MacLennan's incredible sympathy for his characters and their city. If in advanced middle age they now appear flabby and indifferent as they quietly sip Dewar's Best-Ever-Bottled, they exist, at least. MacLennan has explained how hard knocks made them the way are. Hard knocks always arouse sympathy, particularly if the victims are people you know...
...when she received her honorary degree, Barbara Ward--Lady Jackson in private life--had published her book Faith and Freedom and had just completed a term as Visiting Lecturer on Government. This year the noted corresponding editor of the Economist is back for her third spring in Cambridge. The visit is the result of a Carnegie Foundation Grant, administered through Radcliffe, making it possible for Miss Ward "to look into various aspects of economic assistance programs and their effectiveness in relation to American long-term policy." Work under the Grant causes her to divide her time between Washington, UN Headquarters...
Lady Jackson was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Felixtowe, England, later at the Lycee Moliere and the Sorbonne, Paris, and Sommerville College, Oxford. She received her degree in "PP and E" (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Her book titles reflect her interest; among her published works are The West at Bay (1948), Policy for the West (1951), Faith and Freedom (1954), and Interplay of East and West...
...most recent book, Five Ideas that Change the World, was published within the past two months. "The origins of the book are interesting," she says. "The Prime Minister of Ghana asked me to lecture to the students at the University soon after Ghana achieved its independence in 1957. I attempted to explain that the experiences of Ghana, such as colonialism and industrialism, were part of the common experience of mankind. The book is pretty much the same as those lectures, only transcribed into readable English...
...section of the book devoted to dissection of this personality will particularly offend academic readers. The professor finds himself described as "a moderate conservative in politics, clothes, and morals... satisfied with the world as well as himself... (diplaying) a deep sense of inferiority, fear, and maladjustment overlain by an almost fantastic sense of superiority... 'a harmless drudge'." Williams rightly says that he might have called his book: "Some of My Best Friends Were Professors...