Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost all the evidence is now in. To add to his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence's trustees have now released his official Letters, and his friends-and-biog-raphers, Robert Graves and Liddell Hart, have each published the letters T. E. wrote to them. Only remains Lawrence's account of his years in the R. A. F., The Mint (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936), which will not be published till 1950. The sum of all this testimony does not change the verdict on Lawrence that his generation has already brought in; but it does add some slightly distorting...
Some of them: Lawrence, who changed his name (to Ross, to Shaw) was not really named Lawrence at all. In a letter to Robert Graves he says: "My father took name of Lawrence (not even my mother's name) when he left Ireland." He was never letter-perfect in Arabic; says he: "Feisal called my Arabic 'a perpetual adventure...
Most men give themselves away in their letters, and T. E. was no exception. The final casting-up of his complicated, restless, unfrank character is well done by Robert Graves: "He had all the marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour, the power to excite sudden deep affections, loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic...
...Robert R. Walcott, Jr. Wednesday 3-5 o'clock...
Electing what the society termed "the eight intellectually most outstanding men, judging from their grades and from the recommendations of their tutors," the Harvard division of the national Phi Beta Kappa organization appointed the following Juniors: Robert S. Bart, Louis Hartz, Garfield H. Horn, Ward MacL. Hussey, George S. Kurland, Phil C. Neal, Paul Olum, and Stanley J. Sigel...