Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the library edition of his works Mr. George Moore withdrew his book of criticism, Impressions and Opinions, substituted the present volume of conversations "to revive a form in which criticism can be conducted more agreeably than in the essay." To 121 Ebury Street, London, he invites his friends: Walter de la Mare, John Freeman, Granville Barker, Edmund Gosse, many others. Graciously, in the candlelight, by his comfortable hearth, he spins for them the shining web of his prose. Hardy is damned; Balzac exalted; one learns that the writing of George Eliot is "without pleasure," that boiled chicken has never...
...made an Assistant Professor. Since 1917 he has been an Associate Professor. Besides this book, Professor Copeland has written several articles in the Atlantic Monthly and "The Life of Edwin Booth", besides editing "The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister", with an introductory essay, in collaboration with Mr. Rideout on Tennyson's "The Princess...
...Girl. If you are one of the agreeable nomads who blend with the hurrying theatre crowds only occasionally, this play may seem acceptable. It is a musical essay on the trials of Prohibition. The fact that a good many of the lines are frayed with age will not depress you. Yet, if you are a suspicious theatregoer from the midst of the metropolis where a good joke is an old joke in a week, you are cautioned quietly against...
...veteran youth of this essay is a business man who, facing the problem of retirement, solved it by entering the University of North Carolina. He had no trouble, it seems, falling into the spirit of the enterprise. For "skipping" classes he was soon hauled up before the dean. It rather shocks one's idea of propriety to think of the dean addressing an humble penitent "Venerable...
Since I wrote that essay two very important events have happened at Harvard: First, we are to build a new School of Business Administration at the cost of five millions of dollars. Second, Professor Baker, of the 47 Workshop has resigned from Harvard's Faculty...