Word: tawney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...
...example: a scene (described by Historian Philip Woodruff) that "Tawney of the Central Provinces" lived. "Quite early in his service, [Tawney] was rebuked for not appearing punctually when summoned before a superior. He must come at once, whatever he was doing, he was told. It was a rebuke quite foreign to the traditions of the service, and Tawney made the most of it. Next time he was summoned he appeared naked, borne shoulder high in a tin bathtub by four orderlies...