Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evil characteristic must be as trite as the fame of the cry "Reinhardt." Yes, Harvard has such a bacterium. But, like some bacteria, it is not harmful and rather good. Only the word itself is poor; it gives the wrong connotation. For a Harvard man's indifference is not mere disregard of people, studies, football games--although there are cynics in every society, but a thoughtful desire to let the business of others alone, to let each individual dress and act as he pleases. Communists and New Dealers alike are safe in Harvard; so are spiritualists and hi-li fiends...
Because of the moderately intelligent, highly articulate and supremely argumentative nature of the New Republic'?, and Nation's readers (less than 70,000 all told) ructions among their editorial personnel tend to create more fuss than their mere circulation figures would warrant. So a major little editorial crisis shook the Left press last week when the New Republic'?, inside back page displayed this bulletin...
...Goncourt brothers never married, prided themselves on sharing a Rubens-esque blonde mistress. (Editor Galantiere raises eyebrows at this, suggests that in this case, too, Edmond was a dispassionate observer.) But that they were men of the world, not mere bourgeois scriveners, their journal amply witnesses. They were as much at home in a princess' salon as in an actress' dressing-room, describe each with equal skill...
...mere fraternity, the G.O.A.A.A. was formed by a German-born contralto named Elizabeth Hoeppel, onetime of the Chicago opera, who among other things wanted the U. S. Government to provide more relief for jobless singers. Contralto Hoeppel's union offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also...
...into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by poets. Two epics (the Iliad and Odyssey) and a low hill in Turkey, within sight of the Dardanelles, are all that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers in it not a prehistoric frieze of barbarous "heroes" but a valuable prototype of the modern world...