Word: lovingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bate'sKeats culminates twenty-five years of loving scholarship, beginning with his undergraduate thesis at Harvard. It represents a classic synthesis of the two major styles of modern biography. With few exceptions, scholarly biography in the twentieth century has been characterized either by massive detail (what Sinclair Lewis, for example...
Died. Louis MacNeice, 55, handsome Irish-born, sports-loving Greek scholar who, in the early 1930s, was briefly celebrated as one of the brash young Oxford poets, along with Auden, Spender and C. Day Lewis, who stood traditional English verse on its ear by mixing slang and sardonic wit, toff...
This demi-paradise, this Eden for the voracious young, throbs with girlish concern for love and money, in that order. But evil, when it is finally faced firmly by Mrs. Spark, comes in the form of lust, not for human flesh but for one of the club's principal...
Our God is black And like a goddamned god Guiding when loving Killing when angered.
In Spinster, her vivid novel pub lished in 1959, Sylvia Ashton-Warner told of a loving, slightly balmy school teacher who taught Maori children in back-country New Zealand. Herself a teacher for 17 years in Maori schools (but a grandmother rather than a spinster), Novelist Ashton-Warner endowed her...