Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration, Arthur Larson was the only one to ride to political fame on a book. Larson, brilliant Rhodes scholar and onetime dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, published A Republican Looks at His Party when serving as an efficient but little-known Under Secretary of Labor. Ike read the book while recovering from his ileitis operation, was impressed by Larson's carefully reasoned thesis that "New Republicanism" was the wave of the political future, that New Deal Democrats were as out of tune with the times as William McKinley. After his recovery, Ike called Larson...
...naturally pleased to read the piece on the study of American Literature at Harvard, by Richard N. Levy, which you ran on Friday, October 18. As far as I know, it is factually correct, as to dates, etc., though perhaps a bit indulgent in its judgment of personalities. I write this, however, to lament that Mr. Levy appears not to know the name of W. Ellery Sedgwick, who in the late 1930's was associated with Professor Matthiessen and me in the conduct of English 33. Both Matty and I learned as much from him as we did from...
...Jamestown. On Sunday, Elizabeth and Philip attended services at Ottawa's old Christ Church Cathedral; there Philip read the Parable of the Talents to an overflowing congregation. This week Elizabeth would open the Canadian Parliament (the first time a reigning monarch had performed this act), then fly to Jamestown, Va. for a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of North America's first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also...
...players took their positions, learning on the bridge rail. An argument soon developed as to where the Sputnik would come from. "I read in the CRIMSON that the Lowell House tutors said it appeared directly over the bell tower," a boy focusing a telescope suggested. It was suggested, however, that, at the time of that sighting, it was extremely improbable that the Lowell tutors could be certain of the whereabouts of the tower...
Ford chose fine material for his atonement: a story by Frank O'Conner, and one-act play by Lady Gregory and Martin McHugh. Then, after giving Hollywood its due by having Tyrone Power read the introductions, he filmed all three on location in Ireland, with actors from Dublin's Abbey Theatre. The result is a light, but eminently convincing movie...