Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunched behind his lecturer's desk at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, the speaker introduced his subject as a product of the subconscious ("the earliest form of surrealism"), argued its artistic kinship to the creations of Authors Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, James Joyce, Painters Renoir, Salvador Dali...
When Professor Burns of Dartmouth raved that Harvard historians never travel beyond the Cape and are interested in nothing west of the Hudson, he must have forgotten Paul Buck. This stocky, bespectacled historian came to Harvard in 1923 and has since acquired a reputation of knowing "more about the South...
Singapore's defenders knew the stakes. If they should fail all United Nations bases from Suez to Pearl Harbor would be in hazard. Japan's Malayan forces would be free to attack Java, Burma, perhaps Australia. With evacuation almost impossible, it would deal a heavy blow in manpower...
The making of peace between Farouk and Nahas was a sure sign that Egyptian nationalism was rising again-timed to embarrass Britain when her hands were busy holding off an Axis invasion. The British Middle East Command, never knowing when to expect an Axis drive through Turkey and down through...
Actors like to work for him. His air of knowing what he is about puts them at ease; his ability to convey to them precisely what he wants reassures them; his enjoyment of what he is doing stimulates them. But two of Stevens' attributes are beyond the understanding of...