Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metamorphosis to an honor society came at no particular time--it just gradually "happened" in the middle eighteen hundreds. The society of scholars settled down to an annual routine of meeting for election and initiation of new members, holding exercises in June at which scholarly orations and poems are read, and having annual dinners...
Cripps began to read in a firm, precisely modulated voice, and listeners' faces lost the look of pleased anticipation. The news that the Chancellor brought forth from the dispatch case was almost...
...Peiping in January and so insured its control over North China, Christians in China and throughout the world began wringing their hands. But not Dr. Chao. He wrote and circulated privately among his fellow Christians his own call to Christian battle. This week, U.S. churchmen had an opportunity to read one of these articles: Excerpts...
...Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
When Empson read it aloud, his Bacchus swept his hearers away with its sonority and music, having an effect that Poet John Crowe Ransom likened to "the blazing beauty of fireworks." But what most impressed them was the detachment with which this prodigious man regarded a notoriously threatened and self-conscious world. The last poem in his new book was a meditation on world culture...