Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hapgood was athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are beautiful." Post-graduate study in Europe included art museums, mistresses, drinking, sightseeing, conversation, desultory reading. Said young Novelist Robert Herrick one day: "Hutch, you don't do a damned thing, do you?" Like many another obtuse observer, says Hapgood, Herrick was apparently correct. But "if I wasn't busy, something was busy with...
Assistant manager: Robert D. Graff...
Assistant manager: Robert M. Jonney...
Assistant manager: Robert G. Paine...
...literary world will be represented in Cambridge this year by Robert Frost dean of the American poets, and John Mason Brown, drama critic...