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Word: forster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommendation to offer food a la carte was made earlier this year by the management consultant firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Changes Announced For Graduate Dining | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...character thus introduced by Novelist Naipaul (rhymes with highball) belongs to that growing family of ex-colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huckster Hindu | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Harkness Commons will probably operate on a cafeteria basis next fall, Louis A. Toepfer '14, vice-Dean of the Law School, announced yesterday. The step was recommended recently in a report by the management consultant firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness to Try Cafeteria Style In Face of High Operating Costs | 3/19/1959 | See Source »

...really enjoy. I have read constantly since I was twelve. I read about four or five books a week, and I have finished over 200 books in the last five months alone." Capote is particularly disposed to Proust, Flaubert, Jane Austen, Turgenev, and, among living writers, E. M. Forster. He has a voluminous Proust collection, including a number of obscure biographies...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Cocktails With Truman Capote | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

...Aroused. Not since Russian troops crushed the Hungarian rebellion had world opinion been so repelled by a Soviet action. In London 14 distinguished writers, ranging across the political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Choice | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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