Word: forster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preface, Mack says he undertook the Lawrence project with a prejudice in favor of a much more psycho-analytical explanation of his subject; but the more he discovered the more he became convinced, he writes, that Lawrence's unusual place in history was of central importance. E.M. Forster wrote about Lawrence that in an age of faith he might have become a monk, or at least a holy crusader who continued to believe in his lost cause...
Most of these reactions, whether stated eloquently by Bickel or in the spirit of alarmism by authors Benjamin Epstein and Arnold Forster, were still gut reactions based on the future implications of affirmative action. And because they were acts of outrage rather than attacks based on empirical data, they have been easily parried. The best recent counter-argument to those extolling meritocracy appeared in the briefs supporting the University of Washington against Marco DeFunis in 1974. Many briefs contended that very few hiring and admissions decisions are based solely on merit--and that race could play just as much...
...series of five novels (the Children of Violence series), had no such ability to love, and in her struggle to be independent abandoned her child to a boorish husband. Perhaps Lessing has mellowed now: perhaps Emily and the narrator are closer to Margaret, the earth mother figure of E.M. Forster's Howard's End, and, like her, can end with "Only connect...
...Allen and his mediocrity were necessary for the success of The Towering Inferno. When good directors try to make uncomplicated popular movies, they are incapable of keeping a poker face about it. To paraphrase E.M. Forster, few directors can prostitute all their powers. Even when working on the lowest level, they are always implying they are capable of something higher...
...trust fund set up 22 years ago by Rosenberg Defense Lawyer Emanuel Bloch. Robert has a degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Michael studied economics at Swarthmore and read history at King's College, Cambridge, where he lived in rooms above E.M. Forster. "He once complained my parties were too loud, but when I explained it was only a record player, he sent up a note that read, 'I shall call on you soon...