Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Adams, professor of English at the University of Washington, will present the case tonight for the English humanists' attack on medieval romance in a lecture entitled "Bold Bawdry and Open Manslaughter." He will speak in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room at 7:30 p.m. The talk is open to the public...
...Matthiessen, chairman of the board of tutors, began to emphasize the honors character of the field. History and Lit became, Perkins says, "insensibly, by circumstance, not by original plan" an honors field. A mystique grew up around the field; there was a tendency for History and Lit people to talk in terms of "we happy few;" they felt, as one observer put it, that "everybody from T. S. Eliot to Marx can be understood in terms of History...
Compared to all the hot talk, the opinions of incoming N.A.M. President Stanley C. Hope, 65, onetime president of Esso Standard Oil Co., were calm and restrained. A native of Springfield, Mass., Hope was president of an oil-equipment company before joining Esso, after his retirement last July joined SoundScriber-Corp. of New Haven, Conn, as president -on a three-day-a-week basis...
...reader sometimes waits yawningly for the next station of the plot. Yet these defects mask virtues. Coincidence is the logic of destiny, and Dr. Zhivago has a strong sense of his destiny. The massed characters and episodes help to give the book panoramic scope. And the torrents of talk on art, religion, and life usually flow with incisive force, in what one critic calls Western Europe's "great tradition of full statement"-a tradition that has nearly disappeared in the West's contemporary fragmented, endlessly detailed and programed writing...
Soviets, verses and long talk...