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...times have been changing in the misty capital. Spanish custom has been modified by the influence of the amiable French and the brisk North Americans. Now Colombian Essayist Camilo Pardo Umana has suggested a revised Code of Mourning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Mourning Becomes Shorter | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...letter was written by Wallach on behalf of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, a group of students in several eastern colleges "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the great French essayist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fr. Feeney to Meet Wallach In Discussion | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...local officer of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, an organization which terms itself "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the Great French essayist," tossed a debate challenge last night on the doctrines of Father Leonard Feeney of St. Benedict's Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctrine of Father Feeney Is Challenged by 'Agnostic' | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

Died. Alexander Harvey, 80, Brussels-born onetime reporter (the old New York Evening Telegram), an editor on the New York Herald, and the Literary Digest, critic (William Dean Howells) and essayist; in Dumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...wrote the gentle essayist Charles Lamb, in phrases ardent as a lover's whisper, "is no less provocative of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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