Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeded fifth in a field of sixteen colleges, Elton McNeil '49, and David Funk, NROTC, placed in the quarter-finals of the West Point debating tournament Saturday. Arguing both sides of the question of compulsory military training, the Crimson squad defeated Yale and Penn State before losing to the top-seeded West Point team, which went on to beat Iowa and Annapolis to win the tournament for the second straight year...
Gladys Schmitt's David the King: 825,000 copies...
...novels themselves were a mighty mixed lot. Three (King's General, Foxes, Sun) were costume pieces, rich with sex, lacy or unlaced. David the King was an elaborated Bible story. Arch of Triumph was soft love scenes in refugee Paris, hard resistance talk. Brideshead Revisited was Oxonian, Catholic, elegant, epicene...
...classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles away from school, put him to work at a shilling a day in a blacking factory. Father and mother Dickens spent this period...