Word: byronical
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...BYRON VON KLOCK New Haven, Conn...
...looked back on the past of others-Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Proust, Disraeli-and returned them to life in supremely readable biographies. When he died last month at 82, Maurois was best remembered and eulogized for those biographies. But he possessed other skills, as is shown by his Collected Stories, published a few days after his death. He was a distinguished partisan in the only warfare the French ever enjoyed, and the only fight Americans think that they have pressed hard-the battle of the sexes. "One must make the choice between loving women and knowing them; there is no middle...
...happened in Chicago, in 1965. There, just two weeks before Christmas, a spinster lady named Alice Byron Atwood died at 85, leaving behind a reputation for warmness and generosity...
...scientists are impressed, and hope to stage similar tests in the Great Plains hail belt. Physicist Byron Phillips, a hail expert for the U.S. Environmental Science Services Administration at Boulder, suggests that inexpensive ; rockets might be even more efficient. Eight rocket stations, he says, could protect the entire state of Kansas...
...come about that this man, after his death, triumphed over Voltaire, revived religion, transformed education, elevated the morals of France, inspired the Romantic movement and the French Revolution, influenced the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer, the plays of Schiller, the novels of Goethe, the poems of Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, the socialism of Marx, the ethics of Tolstoi, and, altogether, had more effect on posterity than any other writer or thinker of that eighteenth century in which writers were more influential than they had ever been before...