Word: tarr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps because he distrusted the senses so much, Lewis was better at lecturing than creating. He thought that the novelist should write down what he sees, not try to dredge up the mind's messy thoughts through stream-of-consciousness. His own novels (Tarr, The Apes of God), while wildly funny in places, are all surface and little depth. So many characters resembled recognizable people that Lewis was always being threatened for libel...
...other Harvard player received even honorable mention for the all-Ivy squad. The second team consists of Columbia's Neil Farber, Yale's Denny Lynch, Steve Cram of Cornell, Dave Tarr of Brown and Dave Schumacher of Yale...
...weekly newspaper there, the Law rentian, apologized recently for "unintentionally and unconsciously" misquoting President Curtis W. Tarr in an interview. Tarr had been quoted as saying, "If we were to superimpose upon the Lawrence campus--given our facilities--the present rules of a school like Harvard, we would attract here at this midwestern setting the kind of student who attends Harvard...
...Lawrentian's editor explained that he realized there had been an error "only when I saw Dr. Tarr's words reprinted in another context...
...Tarr is an alumnus of the Business School...