Word: classicists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zeph Stewart, classicist, of Cincinnati, Ohio. A.B. Yale...
...appointment follows the retirement last year of Dean Roscoe Pound, who had served as University Professor since 1935, when the four posts were first established. The other three chairs are currently held by Werner Jaeger, Classicist; Summer H. Slichter, economist; and Ivor A. Richards, humanist...
...Adds Classicist Walter R. Agard: "Their determination to get something out of Wisconsin has been positively painful . . . A much more solid, substantial crowd than after the first war. They went after their problems hard, and not too optimistically . . . Uncertainty is the nearest thing to a common banner. They'd like to be assured, and can't be. That's part of the disillusionment...
That was how Eliot, a "revolutionary" poet, became without inconsistency the foremost literary champion of tradition. Everybody quoted him as saying that he was "classicist in literature, royalist in politics and Anglo-Catholic in religion." That would have sounded less smug if they had added, as Eliot did: "I am quite aware that the first term is completely vague, and easily lends itself to claptrap; I am aware that the second term is at present without definition, and easily lends itself to what is almost worse than claptrap, I mean temperate conservatism; the third term does not rest with...
...naked and serene for all to see. They had names like Shirley, Janet, Dottie and Barbara. Their creator, who had carved them in stone and wood, and exhibited them in a Manhattan gallery last week, talked of the little statues with impartial enthusiasm. Sculptor Oronzio Maldarelli, a sure-handed classicist, had spent 13 years on them, working almost entirely from memory and imagination, and had named the figures after friends as a courtesy. "I'm trying to create form, beautiful harmonies of shapes. I wouldn't waste a minute on just the physical aspect...