Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize is awarded annually for the best essay of five to ten thousand words on a subject in American Literature...
Phase Two of Arthur Valpey's after lunch discussion was an evaluation of Ivy League football in 1949. Art, of course, couched his statements with the reservation that they were only personal opinion. This department can only comment on the subject to the effect that if anybody is qualified to speak on Ivy League football, it is Art Valpey...
...midyear show, which opened last week, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum had chosen an appropriately big subject: "The Classical Contribution to Western Civilization." Covering 25 centuries, the exhibition set out to demonstrate how much was owed to the Greeks and Romans by medieval, Renaissance and even modern...
...public which we, in our turn, were going to address, the vacation was over. It was composed of men of our sort who, like us, were expecting war and death. For these readers without leisure, occupied without respite with a single concern, there was only one fitting subject . . . their war and their death...
...Hard Knowledge. Van Doren's contribution to the subject of Hawthorne thus amounts to an impressive, if interrupted, essay on what Hawthorne had to say and how successfully he said it. That contribution could have been greater if Van Doren had 1) thrown away the biographical passages, or 2) fastened his attention on the man Hawthorne really...