Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medieval Essays is a handy sampler of Dawson's view of history. He writes with the smooth mixture of clarity, scholarship and happy metaphor that characterizes good British historians, and the imperturbability of a man content with a limited audience. (His 15 books have had an average U.S. sale of 3,600 copies...
...make up their first issue, Father Van Ackeren and his fellow editors at St. Mary's College in Kansas-all of them Jesuits-read articles in more than 100 Catholic and Protestant reviews, written in five languages. A sampler of their selections: Louvain's Professor Joseph Coppens discussing the knife-edge Roman Catholic distinction between literal and allegorical interpretations of the Bible; Father Clifford Howell, an English Jesuit, giving his suggestions on how laymen can better participate in the Mass; Historian Ernst W. Zeeden of the University of Freiburg reviewing current theological developments in Protestantism...
Rolling into New York state last week, Harry Truman wound up two weeks of whistle-stopping during which he had done his demagogic best to insure that Dwight Eisenhower should not get the presidency in 1952. A sampler of Tru-manisms...
Mercury associate, Charles Angoff, has reached back over 34 years, dusted off Nathan's personal Five-Foot Shelf of writings (some 39 books) and pieced together a Nathan sampler. Sipped, The World of George Jean Nathan is a delight; swallowed, it leaves a faintly rusty taste on the palate, like water too long in the taps. With malice toward some, Nathan has his say on every subject under his sun. Examples...
...gleaming marble corridors. In the dead of night last week, Honor Guard Corporal Linwood C. Smith, a Purple Heart veteran of nine months in Korea, took a ten-minute break, wandered into Ridgway's outer office. There he saw a box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. Knowingly and willfully, Corporal Smith did then & there remove and eat five pieces of candy-four nougats and one mint-and he gave four more pieces to two other Honor Guards, Pfcs. John King and Herbert Branch...