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Young and handsome of aristocratic birth, Weltner has managed to combine Southern courtliness with a Northern education (Columbia Law School) and temperment.

Author: By William B. Hamilton, | Title: Weltner Talks of Deep Pessimism in South | 3/11/1971 | See Source »

Because as Lowell says, "his dogmatism is completely unspoiled by the hedging equanimity that weakens the style and temperment of most serious writers," he became the most powerful American critic since Eliot. It is unlikely that anything better on Frost will ever be written than his "To the Laodiceans"--an...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

Whatever field you pick, don't be afraid to change it later on. As Dean Monro said last week, "The main emphasis should be 'Does this really engage my interest or am I just going through the motions?'" Everybody has a roommate who fit right in from the beginning with...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Twenty-Nine Undergraduate Departments: What They Teach and How They Teach It | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

What of Robert Kennedy? Reports of a feud between him and Johnson are probably overdone, but it is no secret that the two have never gotten along. There is a vast difference between the two in style, personality and temperment, if not in policy. According to reliable reports, Johnson will...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Johnson's Running Mate | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

If Boston has an entertainment specialty, folk music is it. Here you can choose between ragtime and blue-grass, country music and urban blues. Whatever your taste, temperment, or politics you'll find something to like.

Author: By Joseph Boyd, | Title: The Wheres and Whys Of Boston Folk Music | 2/20/1963 | See Source »

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