Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arguments are the ones that would occur with people less left than myself, or with people who know little but like to use slogans only. Things are quite exciting here. As far as school work goes, it is very similar to the old grind at Harvard. Some texts: Sherwood and Taylor, Fieser and Fieser, Darrely, "Physical Chemistry" etc. Similar professors too, i.e., inspiring ones and dull one, but all Chinese of course. Same worry over exams and also exams of same difficulty (most of the Chem. exams are in English, one--Industrial Chem.--is in Chinese but the instructor translated...
...report, written by a seven man committee headed by David Bowen '51, comes after two months of investigation by the group-investigation which involved such alumni as Robert E. Sherwood '17, Donald Oenslager '23, Robert Edmond Jones '10, John Mason Brown '23, and Harry T. Levin...
...Harrison and Lilli Palmer are perpetuating a happy marriage at the Barrymore Theatre on 47th, where they grace John van Druken's' Hall, Book, and Candle. Robert E. Sherwood revised Philip Barry's Second Thresheld, with Olive Brook and Margaret, Phillips at the Morosco, 45th...
They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...
Lewis handled the English language almost as clumsily as Theodore Dreiser, and with less force; he marshaled as many fascinating minor characters as Sherwood Anderson, but his understanding of them did not approach Anderson's awkward but subtle sympathy. Lewis was a good reporter, with an eye for detail. His mimicry of American speech was sometimes an inspired burlesque; his humor was usually broad enough for a Rotary luncheon...