Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what should they choose whose winter has been spent in reading what is more or less old and classic? When January has been devoted to Spinoza or January has been devoted to Spinoza or Jonson what is the fate of July? In other words--should the college man read during vacation and if so, what? A dull rumbining noise will signify in many cases that benign tutors have been careful in tending to the matter and that there will be no radical change, for one should in theory be able to derive as much information from Aristotie when the temperature...
Dirty, bumpy bricks at Indianapolis Speedway will once a year bring fame and fortune to an automobilist, if he will travel over them a sufficient number of times at a speed in the neighborhood of 100 miles per hour. This year the winner of the 500-mile "classic" on the two and a half mile track is a youngster comparatively unknown, a dirt track specialist-George Souders, 27, who spends his more serious moments studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. In a Duesenberg special, he covered the 500 miles of bricks at an average speed...
...clowns were not what they were in my day, or even in yours, kind reader. Influenced by the last feeble, thwarting repercussions of the romatic movement they forgot their classic heritage; they forgot even to be funny; and they did the Black Bottom! I did not let my less critical roommate see my tears. He too, some day, will grow up and learn that we are but shadows in a shadow land, that even, even the clowns of today are. . . . . well, must...
There is no limit to the number of seats which may be applied for to either the crew race or second baseball game, but in the case of the New London classic preference is given to single applications since there is usually a shortage of tickets...
...Significance of Author Woolf's last novel, Mrs. Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. Mrs. Dalloway observed the classic unities of drama, concentrating on one woman, one day in her life. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. The author's scrutiny falls, not on one but on many personalities. Now, in her brilliant offensive on the human soul, she does not perpetrate an open advance. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers...