Word: edition
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pops Advance for the third time, glowing heartily in self-congratulation, far too prosperous by now to worry about what may be written of it here. Those who publish and edit this journal of progressive Republican thought have good cause for contentment, for since their earliest effort of last January a mighty wash of tribute has poured into their Quincy House offices...
...Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
...reading broadly and selectively, making up personal bibliographies. In its second sense (pursuing extracurricular activities), academic abandon suggests the development of rigorous, but non-academic styles of education. In every college activity there are loafers, second-raters, but also the young men who make things happen, who direct plays, edit newspapers, write verse, organize campaigns. Managed properly, academic abandon is a rich life, offering the best of many worlds, nourishing curiosity, suggesting diverse ways of learning, and allowing the student to play a wide variety of roles...
...been Malraux's thesis that only lately has man been able to peer into the darkest crannies of history to see his art as a whole. This volume is the first of some 40 that Malraux and Georges Salles, former director of the National Museums of France, will edit under the title, The Arts of Mankind. The panoramic view of the human imagination should do much to bear out Malraux's thesis. It promises to be the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" reduced to paper...
...writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick, an incorrigible scribbler of poor verse, could not bear to have anyone but Voltaire edit and polish his poems. As Author Nicolson succinctly puts it, "The literary vanity of soldiers passes human comprehension...