Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drama, education and law, all certainly profound, Dr. Wittels begins his gloria in excelsis by linking Goethe and Freud. He ends with Einstein and Freud. The Goethe-Freud link is generally justifiable. Both men began as empirical investigators and ended as rationalizing scientists. And it was a Goethe essay which transformed Dr. Freud's early disinclination to medicine into a probing interest. The Einstein-Freud theory shows that Dr. Wittels has knowledge of Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, but the best food in the book is its reports of Freud's and Wittels...
...Significance. Lawrence was tortured all his life with the desire to be whole. A hater of Christianity, a praiser of paganism, he was fascinated by the figure of Jesus, was by no means the first or last writer to essay his own Jesus-myth, to try to fit Him into his own ideal...
Among those who were awarded gold medals in the Intercollegiate Essay Competition sponsored by the American Committee for the International Colonial and Overseas Exposition of Paris was William Edward Harrison '32, of Roxbury. His subject was "French Influence upon the Culture and Civilization of the United States". Harrison prepared for college at the Public Latin School in Boston...
...Author, Thomas Craven, 42, is a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto Rico, a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet. His essay, "Have Painters Minds?" in the American Mercury for March 1927, brought him into contact with such critical bigwigs as Britain's Roger Fry, France's Elie Faure. Today the entire U. S. art world pays attention...
...often subordinated to the economic policies of the government," Michael Karpovich, of the department of Government, who served in the Kerensky provisional government after the revolution, stated in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The present system may be better termed an experiment in political dictatorship than an essay into a new economic sphere," he continued...