Word: harcourt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debutante daughters of wealthy tradesmen. It was all high spirits and higher expense accounts. For the showiest party of all, an army of some 60 technicians was called in to transform the ballroom at Claridge's into a moonlit garden so that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success. At another party, given at the Monkey Club, an exclusive shelter and society finishing school...
Besides Frank and Bridgman, speakers were Giogio de Santillana and Henry Guerlac, science historians; Harcourt Brown of M.I.T.; J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of the Institute for Advanced Study; Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; Charles Morris of the University of Chicago; and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English...
...each of the conference's three sessions there will be three short speeches followed by an informal discussion. Saturday morning's speakers--science historians Giorgio De Santillana and Henry Guerlac, and Harcourt Brown, Dean of M.I.T. and president of the American Academy of Science, will discuss the "Interaction of the Sciences and the Humanities"; Ernest Nagel, professor of Philosophy at Columbia, will chair the meeting and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will initiate the discussion...
LETTERS FROM MADAME LA MARQUISE DE Sévigné (389 pp.)-Selecfed and translated by Violet Hammersley-Harcourt, Brace...
...SHADOW OF MY HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half...