Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardy as a shy, big-featured, lumbering fellow who attended every class meeting and otherwise tried hard to be "regular." His professors remember him as a student with a photographic mind who learned everything 100% right the first time. Prodigy Hardy has traveled abroad almost every summer since childhood. He can discuss theology in 17 languages. Scholarly friends treasure his letters in Latin, filled with doggerel and idiomatic anecdote. But most of his intimates have been non-scholars who at first did not know or care about his prodigiousness, later liked him in spite of it. He automatically corrects conversational...
...back on both sides for nearly 300 years, Edith Newbold Jones was brought up to think that the real world consisted of a few houses in Manhattan, a street in Newport, the continent of Europe. "I used to say that I had been taught only two things in my childhood : the modern languages and good manners. Now that I have lived to see both these branches of culture dispensed with, I perceive that there are worse systems of education." At 11 she started her first novel, beginning: " 'Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Brown?' said Mrs. Tompkins...
...made his pile in the West and gone to Manhattan to raid the other corsairs. Gareth was one of a family of impoverished but socially correct little exiles who had been brought up to believe that they were all prodigies. Gareth's and Violet's childhood friendship might have developed into marriage, but Gareth had no money. Old Man Shore got his daughter the finest husband money could buy, and she spent the rest of her life making the best of the bargain. When she and Gareth met again, he had become a successful European art dealer. They...
Nearly everyone who come to Harvard has from earliest infancy been acquainted with at least the popular legend type of American history. In History 5a the student will find some of his childhood beliefs supported, others ruthlessly destroyed, but in any case he will find a steady-moving, very thorough account of America from 1765 until the close of the Jacksonian...