Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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24 Afternoon Lecture Series, George Kirk, "The United Arab Republic and the Meaning of Arab Unity."
Little magazine post-war prose suffers the same division, except it's a gap between old and new. The old: the grand-children of Twain and illegitimate sons of Hemingway who have come to confuse the simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged...
In following weeks Paul Henle, professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, will talk on the "Metaphor." George Eden Kirk, associate professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut, will speak on "The United Arab Republic and the Meaning of Arab Unity." Herold C. Hunt, Charles William...
Ever since TV's first commercials, men in white have peered portentously into living rooms and assured viewers that all manner of products-patent medicines and dentifrices, cosmetics, drugs, and even cigarettes-are exactly what the doctor ordered. "For my patients, I recommend . . ." says one white-smocked huckster. As...
Count de Ségur's famed diary of Napoleon's Russian campaign is not just another book about Bonaparte; it is the main source of a thousand schoolbooks, cartoons, legends, sermons and second thoughts for would-be conquerors. Nor is it simply a great and exciting war...