Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ervine insults ran through two editions when Philip Goodman, having read it, called up the World and had it deleted from the review of Rainbow...
...simple process of keeping a reminiscent journal for six months, "that c'toonist" has told his neighbors, who for him include all mankind, how life has been with him; whom he has known, what he has seen, read, heard, thought...
...read Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman, Hugo, Dumas and Shakespeare. He remembers what he reads and lives by a lot of it. His god is one of Life and Laughter who belongs to no organized church...
...Author. When Woodward was a small boy in South Carolina he read a book which proved the South had won the Civil War. Such was his surprise when he later learned otherwise that his curiosity, permanently caught, culminated in his study of Grant. In between time, however, he was advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show...
When the first volume of The Decline of the West appeared in Germany a few years ago, thousands of copies were sold. Cultivated European discourse quickly became Spengler-saturated. Spenglerism spurted from the pens of countless disciples. It was imperative to read Spengler, to sympathize or revolt. It still remains so. The second volume, treating of the kinship of _ plants, animals, men, parallels of law, cities & cultures, languages, religions, ethics & morals, stimulates further astonishment and elation. These are fruits of contact with perhaps the most colossal mind of our age, a mind which forces wondrous patterns on the chaos...