Word: peters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the building was opened as a guest house, it was remodelled extensively inside with period furnishings to match, some of them given or lent by graduates, others on loan from the Fogg or the Metropolitan in New York. The star visitors so far have been ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who stayed there when he came to speak at the Business School last spring, and Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was in Cambridge for a short time this summer. President Conant also stays there occasionally in one room he particularly likes-because it has a shower instead of a bath...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
After this ruling, Italy's semiofficial, two-million-member Catholic Action organization thought it was safe to ask for exclusive permission "to sell souvenirs in St. Peter's Square." With lifted hand, Cardinal Nicola Canali, who governs Vatican City, thundered: "No! St. Peter's is a house of prayer...
...scientist is inclined to minimize the Russian scientific achievement. It is possible that the Russians have built by persistence and enormous effort a single rather poor bomb. But they have world-renowned physicists, such as Peter Kapitza, and probably many other first-rate men. So it is also quite possible that they have large, fairly efficient plants capable of producing many excellent bombs...
Even the best translation, John Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original...