Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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You conclude a review of Stephen Seley's book with: "It is now 24 years since James Joyce gave the world, in Ulysses, his great experiment in stream-of-consciousness writing. Baxter Bernstein not only recalls the horde of little streamlets that bubbled up in the master's...
"There is a new kind of literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand it. Last year there appeared a gigantic novel entitled Ulysses by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words-many...
Fresh from Cornell University Medical College in 1902, Dr. James Sonnett Greene received his first patient: a youth of 20 who stuttered. Between agonizing pauses and machine-gun bursts of repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties...
It looked something like moving day at a metropolitan bank. Each of the two private cars that pulled up in front of Yale University's library had four big metal chests inside-and an armed guard. Nobody actually expected hijackers, but Yale, egged on by the insurance companies, was...
He was a slender and mild-mannered man, with a Boston twang and a lively spring to his step. Everybody knew him all right: he was James Bryant Conant, the first Harvard president ever to give a course at the summer school. What happens when a president turns professor? By...