Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INNOCENTS AT CEDRO: A MEMOIR OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND SOME OTHERS
-Robert L Duffus-
...plays all these things he inherited from Professor F. J. Child, who was his master, and for whom he had a devoted admiration. To the end of his life he cherished the high words of praise with which Professor Child had saluted the beginning of his career, and his memoir of Child is perhaps the best example of Mr. Kittredege's clear, unambiguous prose...
Speakers yesterday were Robert F. Herrick '90, former Harvard Overseer, who described Perkins' professional career and position in the local community: Edward S. French, president of the Boston and Maine Railroad, who read a memoir on his services to New England written by Ernest M. Hopkins. President of Dartmonth College: and Leon Fraser, President of the First National Bank of New York, who explained the national and international aspects of his public service...
Kierkegaard's literary method was to invent characters, let them work out their ways of life, publish their "diaries" and "memoirs." Stages on Life's Way gleams brilliantly as character after character cuts a new facet on that indestructible gem, love between man & woman. Part I is a memoir of a wine-sodden banquet where a gay seducer, a fashion stylist, a cynic, etc. discourse on follies of woman and love. Theirs is life's esthetic stage. The ethical is explored in Part II by a happily married essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever...
...Asian Odyssey is the grim memoir of a White Russian artillery officer, who served under General Kolchak and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Mongolia. While many a book has been written about the Russian Red and White armies, and at least two biographies about the fantastically sadistic Ungern-Sternberg, none has more simply or vividly described the incredible hardships and cruelties of a fight which will long rank with the more shuddering chapters of Russian history...