Word: humes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel sure that neither Michelangelo nor Mozart, neither Newton nor Hume nor Gauss nor Einstein gave a conscious thought to social consequences while they were engaged in their labors...
...must all be a mistake." Had she ever read Karl Marx? "No, never." Had she read Lenin? "No, no." There were more questions, including one about how she had voted in the last election. Then she was whisked off to Ellis Island. Twenty-four hours later, after Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong had protested to the U.S. State Department, she was released...
Courses in American literature will be led by Professors John Finch and Hume Vance of Dartmouth, and Daniel Aaron of Smith. Finch, executive director of the Seminar, will lecture on major American prose writers, and lead a seminar on modern American theater...
Twenty-five years ago, at the University of Toronto, three history lecturers became fast friends. Two, Lester Bowles Pearson and Hume Wrong, went into Canada's foreign service; George Parkin de Twene-brokes Glazebrook stayed on as a history professor. During the war, Mike Pearson drafted Glazebrook to help him in the Department of External Affairs. Last week Glazebrook was drafted again, to direct Canada's Joint Intelligence Bureau...
...original form (Patrick Hamilton's play, Rope's End) this was an intelligent and hideously exciting melodrama. It has been well adapted by Hume Cronyn, but it was probably inevitable that in turning it into a movie for mass distribution, much of the edge would be blunted. The boys in the play-who were pretty clearly derived from the Loeb-Leopold case-were highly cultivated, effeminate esthetes. So was their teacher. Much of the play's deadly excitement dwelt in this juxtaposition of callow brilliance and lavender dandyism with moral idiocy and brutal horror. Much...