Word: durants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durant Demurrers...
TIME, Nov. 20 - "Will Durant [belongs] with the modern breed of synthesizers whose aim is to get knowledge into the heads of semi-educated people...
...qualify as scholars, but we can be interested and benefited. Personally, I think "popularizers" such as Will Durant, H. G. Wells, TIME and LIFE are justified...
Your review of Will Durant's The Life of Greece smacks of pedantry...
...Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what Durant calls "the butcher's book," a mighty ledger. He scattered no less than 2,500 source references (to some 200 sources) through the 671 pages of The Life of Greece. Along with these impressive grace notes are other devices, beginning with the price, calculated to put the stuff...