Word: true
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Also] my professional colleagues accuse me of making a "sweeping but poorly documented claim," namely, that "uninhibited, free-fed women have an easier time in labor." While this may be true, and I believe it is, I made no such claim...
...George Herbert Palmer the best, or worst, Mr. Foster could say in characterization was "a well-known classical scholar." Now somehow that puts Professor Palmer in such a distant historical epocli and causes the background to appear to faded and blurred that my sense of loyalty was aroused. True, Palmer was a classical scholar--his translations of Homer are proof of that; but that is not why he was a great personality--one of the Great Quintette in Philosophy as characterized by Rollo Brown in that fascinating book (which no doubt is on the CRIMSON bookshelf) "Harvard Yard...
Lost Boundaries. A true story, movingly enacted, of Negroes who "pass" as whites (TIME, July...
Reproachable Genre. Between affairs, he kept increasing his mastery of the short-story form. He became, gibed a contemporary critic, "an almost irreproachable author in a genre that is not"-the cleverly contrived story, amusing and suspenseful but not quite profound or true. Generous Biographer Steegmuller speaks of De Maupassant's stories in the same breath with Chekhov's, but many readers will feel that De Maupassant never achieved the warm, quiet sympathy and seriousness of Chekhov. Without those qualities De Maupassant takes his own special niche, close...
...same holds true for the customers. "Once they come, they keep coming back," Lombardi points out. He likes to think of his patrons as more "dignified" than the usual customer. Some of them have been going to his shop for as long as 40 years and in at least two cases four generations of a family have taken their business to La Flamme's. It is this informal, one-big-happy-family atmosphere which brings people back and which prompts old grads to revisit La Flamme's whenever they happen to be around Boston...