Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody's Ancestor. Schlechta was able to prove what scholars have long suspected, that Elisabeth suppressed letters in which Nietzsche spoke ill of her and forged others to prove her authority as her brother's only trusted interpreter. Nietzsche wrote many affectionate letters to his mother; Elisabeth dropped ink blots on the word "Mother" and published the letters as if addressed to herself. Schlechta also spotted other frauds with the help of a pack of notebooks that Elisabeth had hidden under attic eaves (Nietzsche had a habit of drafting letters to friends in his notebooks before sending them...
...small neighborhood businessman, who has neither the capital nor the market for a high-volume, low-price operation. But while it is rough on retailers, it is fine for the U.S. consumer, who at long last has learned to call the tune. In the long run, it may also prove just the right tonic for U.S. businessmen, who will be forced to pare their soaring distribution costs-which are often equal to production costs-down to realistic levels...
...cases of attempted suicide and abortion and indignant husbands and shame-stricken spinsters. What seems to be an outbreak of mass parthenogenesis has raised problems of theological, scientific and political interest. This is nothing to what happens when the village doctor has his busy days and the little strangers prove to be stranger than is customary even in science fiction. The fathers, it is now clear, came from outer space, and left no forwarding address. Nor did they leave any clue as to why the children (60 in all) should have golden eyes and be gifted with the power that...
...will the commonsensical British deal with this nonsensical problem? Author Wyndham expends the imagination and skill of a serious novelist on resolving the question. Incidentally, he gives a depressingly convincing picture of British social life. Wyndham has chosen to write about the impossible but has the talent to prove that it happened in an all-too-probable place...
...survive as a continuing institution, and to prove meaningful to the Harvard community, Audience must offer something new. To sustain itself in undergraduate literature, it must seek undergraduate writers. The Charles-River-to-Brattle-Street axis may not be American literature's left Bank, but there are those of us who feel the cloistered years deserve something more than New Yorker apotheosis...