Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Ready said, "We'll treat it like any other incident up there. If they win, they'll have a helluva good time." He continued, "Our men will be there to help people find their way and things like that." He called both Harvard and Yale men gentlemen. "We're not expecting any trouble...
...love of literature flourished on empty stomachs. When Edna was 14, her poems began to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine; when she was 20, Renascence made her famous. She was an oldish 21 when a benefactor sent her to Vassar, a school she at first disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu...
...selections, somewhat arbitrarily grouped by the editor, are almost all directed at the area of Matthiessen's greatest interest, American literature, and a large proportion of them discuss modern American poetry. From his vantage point as reviewer, he is able not only to treat the authors in question on his own terms but also to estimate the contributions of his fellow critics on the same subjects. For instance, his review of Van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England gives him the opportunity to denounce what he considers a cardinal sin--concentration by the critic on a writer's life...
...their studied nonchalance, white Kenyans love their land-for its rolling green pastures, fat with cattle, for its deep forests and smoke-blue mountains, garlanded with the tea and coffee plantations that earn the colony's living. On the whole, they treat their blacks better than most white settlers in Africa. The tragedy of the whites is their failure to understand that the black Kikuyu tribesmen, who tend their crops, wash their dishes, nurse their babies and dig their graves when they die, are also equally fanatic land-lovers. The whites blandly reason: "If we're kind...
Princeton's feat is a real treat...