Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davenport, Iowa City, Oxford and Grinnell, Harry Truman stepped out on the rear platform, with Margaret beside him, to give them hell. "Them" was the Republicans. "The issue is the people against the special interests," he said. Proof? "All you need to do is review the record of this Republican Soth Congress...
...answers the Literary Supplement of the Times of London in a recent book review, "but then, no other nation has so much in itself to admire." Whereupon, using a collection of essays (The Character of England, Oxford; Clarendon Press) as a point of departure, the Times proceeds to write a forceful essay of its own on the British...
...last month the argument went on. Readers argued about Ayer and surrealism, Ayer and mathematics, Ayer and the greenness of grass. One philosopher who paid little heed was Freddie Ayer himself. Last week, far from Oxford and the New Statesman, he was in the U.S., getting ready to teach courses at New York University...
...hates to get up in the morning and finds writing philosophy agony ("I smoke cigarette after cigarette, twirl my watch chain, and all that sort of thing"). The son of a small businessman, he made his way on scholarships through Eton ("I wasn't awfully happy there") and Oxford ("The people were much cleverer than one"). He stayed on at Oxford as a lecturer, then (at 34) Fellow and Dean of Wadham College. In 1947, he left for a professorship at London University...
FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE (194 pp.) F. O. Matthiessen-Oxford...