Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success; managers have been appointed, a preliminary enrollment made, and a tentative schedule drawn up. But this year, too, as in the past, the danger that early-season hustling and bustling will peter out, that teams will play one game and then fold up, and that the whole thing will prove an utter failure, still remains to haunt Coach Samborski...
...whole idea is to try and clear up the age-old question as to whether strenuous athletics will impair the heart...
Brought suddenly before the public eye by recent revelations in the news, the whole question of Visiting Committees comes up for review, and the findings are far from encouraging. It appears that considerable change has come about since the days of twenty-five years ago, when members of the committees actually attended lectures, took notes, and submitted suggestions. In line with a policy of securing great names, the Overseers have turned to the lions of New York, who, despite their thorough knowledge of their fields, have neither the time nor the inclination to come to Cambridge and see how these...
Because Painter Blanche has covered whole epochs in his previous writing, and does not want to go over the same ground in this, he does not follow a strict chronological narrative in Portraits of a Lifetime, but skips through time & space as his memory prompts him. The result is a little disconcerting to readers who do not know his previous volumes. At one moment the artist may be telling some antique anecdote about Renoir which drifts imperceptibly into comment about the political situation in present-day France, of which he strongly disapproves...
Blanche knew everybody. He was at Dieppe when it was a favorite spot for poets and painters and when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust...