Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained by some of them...
...silver lining: diplomas, which cost 55? in 1949, 43?in 1950 and 36? in 1952, have hit a new low-32?. ¶Appointments of the week: Psychologist Nils Y. Wessell, 39. acting president of Tufts College, to succeed Leonard Carmichael as Tufts' full-fledged president; American Historian Owen Meredith Wilson, 44, onetime associate dean of the college at the University of Chicago and since 1952 secretary of the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education, to succeed Harry K. Newburn as ninth president of the University of Oregon...
...Suit of Nerves." At 36, George Meredith had the good fortune to marry a second wife who paid no attention whatever to his endless sarcastic diatribes; they loved each other dearly. "[She is] a mud fort," he murmured contentedly. "You fire broadsides into her, and nothing happens...
...money, came with The Egoist, in which the humiliations of the vain man were described as never before or since. "A complete set of nerves not heretofore examined," said Robert Louis Stevenson, "and yet running all over the human body-a suit of nerves." "A young friend of Mr. Meredith's," Stevenson added, "came to him in an agony. 'This is too bad of you,' he cried. 'Willoughby is me!' 'No, my dear fellow,' said the author...
Today, beyond his poems, it is The Egoist that stands out from all Meredith's works as the successful testament of his creed. It is also the key book in Biographer Stevenson's joining of the chain of intellectual comedy which runs approximately from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, through Peacock's novels, down via The Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much...