Word: tharpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mann whose practical accomplishments in the cause of public education in the 19th century prompted John Dewey to call him "the greatest of the American prophets of education in and for democracy." In a new biography (Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody; Little, Brown; $5), Mrs. Louise Hall Tharp is too close to the trees of worshipfulrress to see clearly the forest of Mann's contribution. But her book is worth reading, if only as a reminder that Horace Mann was a titan in the field of educational statesmanship...
Bargain. In Chillicothe, Mo., while Mrs. Agnes Tharp was selling clothes at a charity benefit sale, an enterprising fellow charity worker sold Mrs. Tharp's own coat...
...slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly's scholarly and readable Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings; another was Yale Professor Roland Bainton's exhaustive life of Protestant Martin Luther, Here I Stand. Louise Hall Tharp, a writing housewife, dared to try a delicate job and brought it off successfully in a spirited three-woman biography, The Peabody...
Sincere Encyclopedia. Working largely from diaries and letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which...
...conscience, each new project seemed the one that would justify all past failures. No one could ever accuse her of being a fuddyduddy. In her old age she approved of the new electric streetcars and telephones and raised her firm Peabody voice for women's suffrage. Author Tharp's judgment seems fair enough: "A walking encyclopedia of worthy causes, and . . . something of a pest. . . But no one could accuse her of insincerity...