Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
This breezy, tweedy, pun-loving admirer of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Hardy, James, Howells and Meredith was a great teach er, because his enthusiasm was infectious...
Critic Trilling approaches this paradox by way of Novelist Forster's literary "manner." "That manner," says Trilling, "is comic; Forster owes much to Fielding, Dickens, Meredith and James. . . . Stendhal believed that gaiety was one of the marks of the healthy intelligence, and we are mistakenly sure that Stendhal was wrong. We suppose that there is necessarily an intellectual 'depth' in the deep tones of the organ; it is possibly the sign of a deprivation-our suspicion of gaiety in art perhaps signifies an inadequate seriousness in ourselves. A generation charmed by the lugubrious-once...
...subject was elementary Latin. The teacher was a young woman fair-and-twenty. Her pretty face, her gay smile, the exquisite taste of her simple dress, were prepossessing; and, as Meredith has it, 'And she was French.' . . . There were no dull eyes or yawning mouths in that room. There she sat in graceful majesty, as though she were presiding over an assembly of philosophers. On the questions she propounded-is it dative or ablative? why is the subjunctive used?-hung the grave issues of life...
Married. Diane Guggenheim, 18, daughter of copper-rich Lieut. Commander Harry F. Guggenheim; and Army Lieut. John Meredith Langstaff, 22, peacetime concert singer; in Manhattan...