Word: rediscoverers
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Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen is a bald, mild-mannered little bachelor who thinks the job of U.S. intellectuals is to "rediscover and rearticulate" the need for Socialism. He spent the last six months of 1947 lecturing on U.S. literature in Salzburg and Prague and writing a book "about some...
Being Churchill, he had not spoken for five minutes when his deep and nourishing sense of history asserted itself. He reminded delegates that the unity of Europe was not something they had to invent but to rediscover.
But the Marx brothers are survivals of a vanishing era. They, together with buffoons Bobby Clark and Bert Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of...
But when Rubens died in 1640, the business died with him. Nine years later his house was leased to an Englishman in exile who turned it into a riding stable. In 1672 Antwerp's Burgomaster tried to buy it for the town, but the price was too high and...
"Nothing the peoples of Europehave produced is worth the first known poem that appeared among them. Perhaps they will yet rediscover the epic genius, when they learn that there is no refuge from fate, learn not to admire force, not to hate the enemy, nor to scorn the unfortunate. How...