Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willa Gather fictionized his life in Death Comes for the Archbishop...
Youngest of the College's extra-curricular brood, the Students Association for Natural and Social Sciences will gather for the first time Thursday night in the Leverett House Junior Common Room to hear Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...houses of the common people in Moscow usually consist only of one room . . . used for all purposes. ... In this room you encounter a large stove covered with boards . . . whereon sits almost all year round, the entire family. ..." Their pleasures were few. Muscovites, who were social drinkers, liked to gather in a korchma (wine tavern) but the taverns were owned by the Czar and rented out to nobles: Muscovites who could not pay for what they drank were held until their friends ransomed them. For centuries, Muscovites did not know how to dance, and paid Tartars and Poles to dance...
...Saturday Re-view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth to give any vivid impression of these writers. His sympathies were never deeply engaged by the new writing of the Hemingway generation, and many of his generalizations about it will seem pallid to literature's more passionate...
Three Harvard history professors will gather around the microphone of WEEI with a colleague from Northeastern tomorrow night at 9 o'clock to discuss Turkey in the current series of Lowell Institute Lectures entitled "Crossroads of the Future...