Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taylor got his first impetus toward history from eight great-aunts. Born in Bedford, Virginia, in 1899 to a northern father and a southern mother, he moved to Maplewood, N.J., at the age of one, but frequent visits back to Virginia enabled his aunts to bring him up in a fervor of Confederate sentiment. Strongly southern in feelings (his earliest published work, which appeared in a local paper when he was ten years old, was a pathetic poem on Lee's army), he become ambitious to rewrite the history of the Civil War "in a proper...
...brawling and festal side, this Romeo was well done. There was some individuality but little lure to Paul Rogers' Mercutio, some novelty but too much license to Wynne Clark's Nurse. What held both productions together, for all their want of urgency and luster, was a frequent feeling for the eloquence of verse, a certain knowledge of the architecture of scenes...
Nevertheless, the frequent brilliance of its specialists, e.g., U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, and the wide latitude given to staffers under the late, great Editor C. P. Scott's dictum "Comment is free, facts are sacred," help to make the Guardian the British newsman's newspaper...
...perhaps the most interesting publication is The Pennsylvania Literary Review, an off-beat journal of frequent literary maturity. Editorially, the Review is refreshingly critical of the University ("We deplore the recent growth of bureaucracy and petty officialism..."), although it says little that has not been said better by David Riesman and The Saturday Review...
...claim little personal credit. As Lieutenant Governor, Whittier spent four years campaigning for this election, attending an estimated 295 breakfasts, 1,150 luncheons, and 3,695 dinners, or two and a half dinners a day. At the same time, his Nixon-like campaign oratory has bristled with frequent free-swinging statements, such as his recent attack on Furcolo as the "most pious fraud ever to appear on a platform in Massachusetts...