Word: rebutted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robbins' attack fails to rebut the fact that Eliot has contributed, directly and through his imitators, to much of the verse of our time, and the fact that he himself remains by reason of his craftsmanship and his perceptiveness, the most accomplished English poet now living. It does, however, say some things which even Eliot's most partisan readers must often have wished to say; and it provires a healthy caveat that poets may, in the public eye, become too big for their britches, though these be large indeed...
...only to say the word, and "the fighting could end in Korea . . . But has it been spoken?" The Dead Mouse. Bounding to the stand about three hours after Dean Acheson had spoken, Vishinsky carried a made-in-Moscow speech into which he had scratched hasty insertions to rebut...
...recent issue of the Wellesley News Miss Geller described what she and her friends consider the "typical" Harvard man. Coughlin and Holbrook, neither of whom is typical of a Harvard man, will attempt to rebut the Wellesly opinion, and may be given an opportunity for a snide remark or two about the "typical" Wellesley girl...
...appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence...