Word: doren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informed people" to say what books "have most profoundly affected the thoughts and actions of mankind" since 1892. On the jury were Charles A. Beard, Henry Seidel Canby, John Dewey, Jerome Frank, Henry Hazlitt, John Kieran, Walter Lippmann, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Norman Thomas, Carl Van Doren. Their first ten choices, in order of recommendations received...
...Oxford Dictionary of Quotations -introd. by Carl Van Doren...
...programs shone again last Sunday. After seven weeks off the air, CBS's Invitation to Learning (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) returned at a new time, 11:30 a.m. to 12 E.S.T., with discussion of the second most popular books in the world (Don Quixote). The talkers Mark Van Doren, John Peale Bishop and Jacques Barzan, examined the mad knight of Cervantes as an archetype of all high-minded but ill-informed reformers, found a recent treatment of the same subject in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. They agreed, however, that Cervantes' Man-in-the-Street. Sancho Panza, learned...
Invitation to Learning's new series of 32 programs was planned on a slightly different basis from its previous 67. Of the three regulars who made up the old team, Mark Van Doren, who is both keen and engaging, alone remains regular. The other two, Allen Tate and Huntington Cairns, are to make occasional appearances. CBS's notion is to vary Mr. Van Doren's companions for the sake of a less foreseeable meeting of minds...
...burlesque theater next door shed their clothes before an almost empty house, Juntoists crammed into the Academy of Music for their inaugural mass meeting. They were greeted by Mr. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas S. Gates, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard and Franklin Biographer Carl Van Doren...