Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Above all," Conant cautioned the prospective graduates, "there must be a determination to re-examine continuously the premises of one's own stand on many issues:--the courage to raise such questions with oneself as: Am I doing this or advocating that because I am really convinced that it will...
Modified Raptures. Not everyone cheered. Some critics choked on his whimsy, and youngsters just out of college or World War I found their own spirit more faithfully mirrored in F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Morley's faithful coterie held tight to the illusion that a sky-high I.Q. and a...
Richard Tolman felt a certain uneasiness at finding himself living outside the centuries of his favorite authors, but it was not for lack of physical comforts. Mealie, his Negro housekeeper, saw to his well-being at home, listened patiently to his erudite rumblings, and entertained her employer in dialect that...
Most novels about an imaginary world (e.g., Gulliver's Travels, Erewhon) have as their central character, or interpreter, a man who somehow strays out of the author's own times and finds himself in a world he never made. But Orwell, like
Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, builds his nightmare of tomorrow on foundations that are firmly laid today. He needs no contemporary spokesman to explain and interpret - for the simple reason that any reader in 1949 can uneasily see his own shattered features in Winston Smith, can scent in the...