Word: unread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chaucerian, has just died. Now Professor X, having heard through a friend that the position is open, and having discreetly let it be known that he is interested, gets a request for copies of his articles. He dutifully sends them to the department chairman, on whose desk they sit unread, until the appointment is made. Meanwhile, the department chairman is inquiring among his friends at X's university about the young man's research "promise." Will he be "productive...
...this stage of the game he ran into the Cult of Henry James. James, the Novelist's Novelist, is the fair-haired favorite in these parts. Almost totally unread elsewhere in America, James finds his audience in privately endowed universities and their reading lists. Even at the Summer School, James is the great brooding deity casting delicate thunderbolts at America's literary nomads...
...this stage of the game he ran into the Cult of Henry James. James, the Novelist's Novelist, is the fair-haired favorite in these parts. Almost totally unread elsewhere in America, James finds his audience in privately endowed universities and their reading lists. Even at the Summer School, James is the great brooding deity casting delicate thunder-bolts at America's literary nomads...
...Crime Commission's report has been left as a last testament of its brief four-year life and $120,000 budget and will probably lie unread until another wave of indignation again demands a cleanup of organized crime. The Commission made few worthwhile recommendations, and the manner in which they were presented minimizes the chances of any resulting action. A State House skeptic summed up the general reaction to the report: "At least it tells you how to play...
Three men got together in a tiny Manhattan studio this week to discuss a widely unread book. The occasion was CBS's long-run (15 years), longhair radio show Invitation to Learning. The three men: Critic John Mason Brown, Essayist Clifton Fadiman and Moderator Lyman Bryson...