Word: karl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...KARL SAX Professor of Biology Harvard University Cambridge, Mass...
...bookstacks, he had read Bakunin, who dreamed of absolute freedom; Marx, who dreamed of absolute politico-economic science; and Rousseau, who dreamed of justice. More important, he had read the Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, who dreamed of power. The more Lenin schemed and struggled (in the bookstacks) for the revolution, and was thwarted, the more he thought of power. He made marginal notes on Clausewitz. "How true!" Lenin wrote. "Clever and witty." Admiringly, he summed up a Clausewitzian point: "War as a part of a whole, and that whole-politics...
...British poet, who is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, will share tonight's panel with Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, and Renato Poggioli, Associate professor of Comparative Literature, who is American editor of the Italian quarterly, "Inventario." The Dunster House Forum will sponsor the discussion...
...Poet Robert Lowell, 30, wartime conscientious objector, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, went a Government plum - a year's pleasant work (at $5,700) as adviser on poetry for the Library of Congress (where his predecessor was 1944 Pulitzer Poet Karl Shapiro...
...effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karl Shapiro. In Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Rabindranath Tagore got their first U.S. hearings. # Copyright by permission of Harcourt, Brace...