Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's connection with the Nazis, Viereck is emphatic in his repudiation of the Hitlerian myth without being unfairly vindictive. Drawing his somewhat vague title from the letters of Richard Wagner, he points out clearly its appropriateness and the significance of its sourse. With a facile and sometimes flip pen, Viereck traces the origins of the feverish ideas of present-day Germany to the Romanticism of the last century and to even remoter sources of German character...
Throughout the academic year the daily physical work of a student consists, on the average, of walking a few blocks, pushing a pen across paper for several hours, and, in times of emergency, turning the pages of a book. To supply the small amount of energy needed to perform that work they have been stuffing their faces with tremendous quantities of food and drink. The result has been an appalling growth of the girth-rate. At present there is so much excess weight on the typical Harvard frame that if all the men in the College were laid...
...scene. Certainly the readers of "Ulysses" far outnumbered those who have any claim to understanding it, just as the parlor critics of "Finnegan's Wake" outnumber its readers. A critical work on this major enigma of our time is therefore particularly welcome, and especially when it comes from the pen of Harvard's most brilliant and penetrating critic...
Donald, at that, is fit to be tied. But the radio goes to work on him. "Taxes to beat the Axis!" it chants. When the Duck realizes what armament his money will buy, he can't wait for Tax Day. His pen, blotter, inkwell, account book go to work on his short-form income-tax blank (for incomes under $3,000). Donald finds he owes a $13 tax. He scurries all the way to Washington to get it in on time...
...section of the University community thought that the first gas attack of the war had been unleashed on Harvard Saturday night when a pen filled with tear gas went off, driving several people out doors...