Word: mumford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program notes for the New York Idea, Howard Mumford Jones reports that one historian has called the play American social comedy at its best. If true, this is an appalling indictment of native playwrights. The New York Idea is a feeble conception indeed, too "smart" to be clever, too-contrived to be good farce, too maudlin to be good comedy. It is also incredibly dated...
Among the speakers is John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley will deliver a speech entitled "The Inward Voice of the Classics" this morning. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, will also speak today...
...Howard Mumford Jones, George Wald, and Thomas Gold graphically demonstrated the gap between the sciences and the humanities in last night's Law School Forum Lowell lecture hall...
...field of concentration was American History and Literature, but he was much more interested in literature than in history, and was particularly passionate about fiction, both as a reader and a writer of it. Every year he took a course in short story writing. He studied under Howard Mumford Jones and Arthur M. Schleshinger, Jr., under Raphael Demos and John L. Finley. His grades were respectable: A's and B's, mostly B's, and just a sprinkling...
...were placed in the middle of the huge halls. Eventually, to get more revenue for the railroad, advertising signs with blinking lights were hung from the walls, stainless steel booths and shops appeared, new cars were spotlighted on revolving turn tables. The inside of Penn Station became what Lewis Mumford calls "a vast electronic jukebox...