Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next two weeks, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, will deliver a series of speeches at the University of London, and so his father stepped in to give the first lecture of the Spring...
DeMille's father, a playwright, was an Episcopal lay reader. Every evening he read two chapters from the Bible aloud to his two boys. "The people in the Bible weren't characters in a book," said C.B. later. "They were real individual entities to me. Mighty warriors like Joshua were my heroes...
...book not only introduces haiku in the clear accompanying text, but is the first really successful attempt at haiku translation. Through it, haiku may well become a fad on U.S. campuses. A professor of Japanese at Columbia University before his retirement four years ago, Henderson inherited from his father a love of Japanese art and literature, nourished by several long visits to the country. Existing haiku translations dismayed him. Most of his 375 translations rhyme, on the very reasonable premise that Japanese haiku might rhyme too but for the limitations of a language in which all words...
Carmian is the writing daughter of an American father and a German mother. She is alone in Paris and so sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
Dima is the son of White Russian parents, a suicide father and a mother who has somehow managed to keep a little money. Mamma's apartment is one of those Paris crow's nests where tea, scraps of food and family belongings are hoarded under beds and a running war is maintained with the concierge. Author Marsh, 36, who has some autobiographical credentials for her story, writes with authority about the grubby side of Parisian life, has woven the fly-by-night painters, writers and plain frauds into her story with the sureness of a Parisian landlady counting...