Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jolting through the red dust and equatorial heat of the French Sudan, a Land Rover pulled into the tiny village of Fanfie Koro. French Administrative Officer Gallierè stepped from the car, greeted the local chief, and solemnly accepted the gift of a white chicken. Speaking through an interpreter, Gallierè explained that the chief of the French government, General Charles de Gaulle, had decided to allow Africans to choose fraternal association with France or to refuse it and become independent. He held up sample ballots, told the villagers that a yellow one meant yes, a violet...
Academic Life. Graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1927, he taught math and physics there for two years. Inspired by a gift of Professor Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, he worked for three years to raise enough money to get to Harvard and study under Whitehead himself. After getting his Ph.D., he taught philosophy at Beirut from 1937 to 1945. Said the great Whitehead: "One of those extraordinary individuals who had a kind of air of divinity about...
Harry Kemp, whose work is familiar to anyone who has bought a calendar in any of the fascinating gift shops of Provincetown, asks his readers "I wonder if it's worth the game/To be thus affable and tame?" and gives us two more poems as well. And other poets, too interesting to mention, are also there. The only good bit is an amusing lazy poem called "Summer" written by Dorothy Pollock-Watson and fun to read...
...little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little saga of puppy love quickly brought to an end by the boy's tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy...
...some--albeit outnumbered--found time for the nonsocial side of summer Harvard. Regular College students studied the details of the new Honors Program Fund, established by President Pusey and sustained by a $100,000 gift from the Procter and Gamble Corporation. Of noncurricular interest were the readings by Robert Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, and other poets of the Fugitive group...