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...authors--asked which of Hemingway'sworks they found important--read and rereadselections from the short-stories "Big Two-HeartedRiver" and "Killers" and from the 1929 novel AFarewell to Arms, it became clear that the vastmajority of the participants were either ignorantof Hemingway's oeuvre, or that they had judged thegreat mass of Hemingway's writing to be unworthyof consideration as a valuable literary legacy...
Edie Bowers, the vice president of the Friendsof the Longfellow House, is thegreat-granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...John led the Fogg Museum during a mostimportant period in its history," said James Cuno."At the terribly young age of 35 he succeeded thegreat co-directors, Edward Forbes and Paul J.Sachs, whose success had been enormous and whoseinfluence was still pervasive. His job was to movethe museum forward in the immediate andfinancially precarious post-war years, and he didso with characteristic good judgment and clarityof purpose...
...persuadedagain and again that, lying dormant in the deepestroots of most, if not all, cultures there is anessential similarity, something that could bemade--if the will to do so existed--a genuinelyunifying starting point for that new code of humanco-existence that would be firmly anchored in thegreat diversity of human traditions...
From our revolution to the Civil War, to theGreat Depression to the civil rights movement, ourpeople have mustered the determination toconstruct from these crises the pillars of ourhistory...