Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made me smart to read that I looked "oddly silly...
...shocked to read ... so many ridiculous and harmful statements...
While Young Republican officers read reports of Truman victories, the Democrats yelled, shouted "We Want Harry," and left at 1:30 a. m. for another march back to Leverett House...
...poll of the world's literary critics, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann would probably win the nomination as the greatest living novelist. He would not, however, win any prizes as the most read-or most readable. His ninth and latest novel, Dr. Faustus, is probably his most difficult. A November co-choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club,* Dr. Faustus is a challenge to the club's membership, who will find it a chewy mouthful after some of the literary pap they have been fed recently...
...could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship of disease to creative activity and the "German problem," before, during & after Hitler. Faustus can in fact be read as an intellectual sequel to The Magic Mountain, that massive and brilliant examination of European thought on the eve of World...