Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marvin last night confirmed his acceptance of the offer, and added that he sent a formal acceptance letter to Harvard on Tuesday...
...pushed back one week, and then another, while the convention haggled over minor points. Several planned meetings had to be cancelled when the convention failed to produce a quorum of 35 students (including one member from 12 of the 14 delegations from the Houses and the freshman class). A letter to organizations of minority undergraduates asking them to send delegates to present their viewpoints on student government, which a subcommittee drafted in November, was finally mailed out early this week...
Kafka was fairly prolific in his 41 years; besides his major novels and some 30 stories, he left two volumes of revealing, intensely personal diaries. His Letters to Milena and Letters to Felice, two women he loved, have already been printed, as well as the 1919 Letter to His Father. Letters to Friends, Family and Editors brings together his remaining correspondence. It is, presumably, the last to be heard from Kafka...
...have rendered some of Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...
...captain in a raiding force that was an adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson's death, he killed a fellow officer in a quarrel; William Bell was ordered to be shot by his commander-in-chief, in a letter in Lee's own hand, January 14, 1864, in a camp outside Lexington. Instead, he escaped by knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion. He named his son Seward Alaska Bell after that Secretary of State and his purchase of territory from...