Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flank or breaks all the rules by storming a bridge, he seems a real character. When he soliloquizes about his dreams of conquest or his love for his wife, he becomes an awkward myth of history. But, as Mr. Austin says of The Road to Glory, "I defy any person to discover all the faults I know positively to exist...
...appears in his insistence on the 'dramatic' nature of Eliot's poetry. This is a point of some importance; in fact, it is of capital importance in any consideration of Eliot. By calling most of Eliot's poetry 'dramatic' Mr. Matthiessen means that Eliot seldom speaks in his own person, even in poems which may seem to be lyrica. Thus Eliot is not Tiresias or Apeneck Sweeney or Mr. Prufrock, and the peculiar spiritual attributes of each are not necessarily Eliot's. The poems in which the persons cited appear are often called to witness by sociological critics...
Raymond E. Helie, of Cambridge, convicted of theft of silverware from Adams House was given a year's suspended sentence and banned from Massachusetts yesterday. Helie was captured in Providence, and several pieces of silver were found on his person. The Harvard initials on the silver had been filed down and replaced with the thief...
...best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research. The next best is the head of the department. After that you meet increasingly worse groups. The first is the research director, who is probably wrong more than half the time. Then comes a committee which is wrong most of the time. Finally there is the committee of company vice presidents who are wrong all the time." "Manufacturing is something unnatural," he continued, "something based on the best utilization of material with the least effort in the least time. Research is something...
...Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much as 16 hours a day, shouting at his horns for greater force and clarity, pleading with his strings for more true feeling, reminding each & every player that for Wagner the orchestra must be as eloquent as the singers...