Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife in 1939 by Boston's Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 92, father of John Moors Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The other three 1953 winners: Crede H. Calhoun, New York Times Panama correspondent; Ismael Perez Castro, director of Ecuador's El Universe; Arturo Oscar Schaerer, editor of Paraguay's La Tribuna...
...Stevenson, biographer of Thackeray and professor of English at the University of Southern California, is just such a historian and a Meredithian to boot. His Ordeal of George Meredith is the first grand-scale resurrection of Victorian literature's most neglected writer. Other writers (including Henry James and Oscar Wilde) have briefly and brilliantly discussed Meredith's peculiar genius, but none has placed him in the great chain so accurately as Stevenson or studied his life and letters with such devoted care...
...OSCAR A. GUINN...
...interested in what happened to your ancestors when they got to this country, Prof. Oscar Handlin will tell you in History 166. Assembling in Harvard Hall 5 this full course traces immigrants in the United States from Boston Brahmans to Bulgarian...
Just as offbeat, but with a U.S. setting, though it might be anywhere, is Oscar Tarcov's first novel, Bravo My Monster (Regnery). Tarcov is no Franz Kafka, his obvious master, but his symbol-laden story of a man imprisoned in his own home by a monster generates high tension...