Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oriental children had no idea what the Hebrew words for exercise book, pencil, eraser or ruler are. When the teacher asked, "What kind of grown-up uses a pencil?" the Europeans shouted, "Poet . . . official . . . bank clerk . . ." But all the little Orientals could think of to say was "Ben-Gurion," for they had never heard of a bank clerk or a poet. As a matter of fact, in their first six years of life, they had absorbed almost nothing. Gradually, they stopped trying to answer any questions...
Before coming to the United States in 1933, Tillich taught at the University in Frankfort, home of the 19th century poet Wolfgang von Goethe. Since 1954 Tillich has been on the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School...
...Salvation Army, to his position by simply showing her that the Army can be bought. He is also looking for a successor to his position as head of the munitions firm, and he ultimately finds the man he wants in Barbara's fiance, a professor of Greek and a poet...
...sort of throaty croak--but the playwright's subtle speech rhythms prove too difficult for her to handle, and her performance often collapses into singsong. Burgess, the professor, seems capable enough though, in view of his large experience, he too is a little disappointing. His character possesses two sides: poet and, ultimately, shrewd businessman. The merchant is present in his performance from the beginning, but somehow the role never grows quite large enough. The veteran actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, on the other hand, adds one more to her long list of impressive performances in the part of Undershaft's rather...
Three roaring literary lions bestrode the narrow Paris of the mid-19th century. All three wrote enormously, loved widely, spent wildly. Honore de Balzac was the greatest novelist. Victor Hugo was the greatest poet. Alexandre Dumas pere ate the most...