Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similar questions have been asked in a handful of books about Southeast Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese...
Passionate Pilgrim, by Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, was a scrupulously honest and sympathetic biography of Vincent van Gogh...
...gyascutus (stone-eating variety) resembles the prock, or sidehill sauger, insofar as its telescopic legs enable it to graze easily on steep hillsides; it is unrelated, however, to the tree squeak and swamp gaboon (both offshoots of the lowly whangdoodle group), but it does claim a sort of Pilgrim kinship to the English slithy toves and borogoves...
...first issue, which will be about 130 pages long, includes among its articles "Class Consciousness in Liberal Thought" by Louis Harts '40, associate professor of Government, "Liberalism: The Next Step" by Kaplowitz, "The Pilgrim's Progress of John Dos Passos" by Anthony Winner, and "The Business Man as Hero" the Jane Johnson Alan Grossman's "Berlin Poems" will also be in the issue...
...pilgrim from place to place rather than a wanderer"; thus fellow-poet Stephen Spender once described Edwin Muir, the University's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for 1955. One of England's leading contemporary poets, Muir last month made his first visit to America. Tomorrow in New Lecture Hall he will deliver his initial lecture on "The Estate of Poetry...