Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, will give a talk on "Karl Shapiro's 'Essay on Rhyme'" at the first meeting of the newly formed English Club, to take place in the Upper Common Room of Adams House, on Friday, April 27, at 8 o'clock...
...final chapter, an essay on democracy and the future, Author Lin predicts an inevitable defeat for the Communists. "Marxism," he says, "sounds 'foreign' to Chinese ears, and the Chinese family and Confucianism . . . will be too strong for them. They will become pro-Confucian and pro-nationalist. ... So history will play pranks with men's ideas...
Indignant juvenile delinquents of both male and female gender have poured forth their wayward wrath upon Freshman cynic Donald S. Rugoff, who read Life Magazine's recent pictorial essay on the gloriously wholesome American teen-age girl and wrote to the editor venomously suggesting that he had been looking at our young girlhood through "rose-colored glasses," and urging him to take a soulful glance at the pick-ups in Times Square and Boston Common...
...Owen Wingrave" is not James' only essay into the theatre, though his plays are far overshadowed by his novels and are almost never mentioned by his critics. Of the seven or eight plays that he wrote between 1889 and 1894, only two were ever seen upon the stage. The first of these was a dramatic version of his novel, "The American," which did fairly well on the straw-hat circuit but ran for only about two months in London during the fall of 1891. In its later provincial life it was played with a re-written last act, wherein, much...
...more & more like an empty stage, its emptiness spotlighted by the news from Europe. Last week, back at the White House, the President faced newsmen, who arrived full of questions and left nearly empty of answers. The New York Times's Arthur Krock was stirred to an annoyed essay on the House of Commons' success in extracting information from Winston Churchill. But the President, rested and amiable, spoke his small news with a good-humored...