Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...semi-annual Phillips Brooks House blood drive will begin Monday with a goal of 1500 pints, Read E. Albright '60 and Leon Rothenberg '60, co-chairmen of the PBH Drives Committee, announced yesterday...
Another obstacle to satire, Vidal noted, is that our leaders, unlike those of some other countries, "are to a man innocent of civilization." During a short White House job, Vidal "found that the Great Golfer read only westerns, and his staff reads Gallup polls...
...Harvard years, however, had been far from futile. It was here that his style and outlook developed as it never had before, and would not again. During his years at Harvard, Wolfe acquired a vast literary background. He read voraciously, eight or ten books a week, even in the periods of his hardest work. Of Widener he wrote: "I wander through the stacks of that great library like some damned soul, never at rest--ever leaping ahead from the pages I read to thoughts of those I want to read." Wolfe possessed an amazing memory, and he was convinced that...
...first two years, Wolfe divided his time between George Pierce Baker's "47 Workshop," and classwork for a master's degree. He took Shakespeare from Kittredge, Romantic Poetry from Lowes, and completed the required curriculum with nearly all A's. Generally he tried to read the complete works of every author mentioned in his classes, and his term papers ran to fantastic lengths, sometimes 80 or 90 typewritten pages...
...Welcome to Our City produced a temporary disenchantment with the University and Professor Baker, Wolfe later acknowledged his debt to both. In the first draft of Of Time and the River he wrote: "Harvard--the one place he had found where utter freedom had been given him to read think and say what he liked.... Few places have meant more...