Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Readers of Evan Connell's The Connoisseur already know Karl Muhlbach, the middle-aged insurance executive and widower who developed a quiet obsession with pre-Columbian art. An innately cool eye for authenticity got him started. Muhlbach's sudden desire to possess statuary caused him embarrassment. In Double Honeymoon, Muhlbach again decides to take a risk within limits. This time it is a brief fling with a beautiful young girl every bit as exotic and cracked as a piece of pre-Columbian pottery...
...where Berlinguer grew up, one of his teachers recalls that "he was a very mediocre student, but he had a good mind." The young Enrico was a voracious reader who spent much time in his Uncle Ettorino's library; it was there that, among other things, he discovered Karl Marx. His family also had a radical tradition; the Berlinguers, like many other Sardinian landowners, had been squeezed by industrialization and became ardent progressives as a result. Continuing the tradition, Enrico and Younger Brother Giovanni, now 51 and a Communist Deputy, haunted a Sassari cafe favored by old-line Communist...
...Prize for poetry in the Pisan Cantos in 1949, a matter that hits at the very heart of the conjunction of poetry and politics in Pound's life. Heymann simply recounts the attacks, defenses and counterattacks on the committee for making the award, without ever proffering his own opinion. Karl Shapiro--who was on the Bollingen committee, and voted against the award--seems to have had the best idea--that a poet's moral and political philosophy could not be separated from his poetry. But then Shapiro, like the rest of the critics of that time and since, suggests that...
...Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, reported a rise of more than 10 per cent in the number of honors degrees awarded by his department because of what he called a "super-good bunch of people...
...journey progressed, Craig spoke in Kandy, Ceylon for those not present or soon to go off on their own, and for the majority still a part of the more formal journey, and for Karl Jaeger's designs for the school as a whole, when he toasted his twenty-first birthday with a small speech on Richard Henry Dana. "After Dana spent his two years before the mast," said Craig, "he returned to Boston to finish his schooling. He became a lawyer or politician or something, very respected in his society and not a little well-to-do, besides keeping...