Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rindge, E. L. Rogers, E. P. Rosenbaum, J. B. Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby, W. A. Smith, T. W. Steptoe, R. N. Svoboda, E. O. Tilton, J. M. Timken, P. A. Unger, G. E. Wesner, H. H. Wilder, J. A. Wilhelm, T. W. Wills, Collier Wright, R. S. Young...
...thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five...
...American culture of this age, in the eyes of future generations, will be the folk arts, such as posters, billboards, and movies," said Thornton Wilder, well-known author, to a CRIMSON reporter, yesterday. "Apparently a cultural aristocracy of some 50,000 people, which feeds itself on the echoes of European education, is dictating our literature and arts, but as in past ages it will undoubtedly be the contributions of the large mass of the people which survive...
...Because of our industrial development," Mr. Wilder continued, "our culture will naturally be different. Let's examine the movies. Of course, the big stars such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford are just figureheads; they do not express real people in any sense of the word. it is in minor starts, such as Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, and Marie Dressler, when she is tened down, that you find American types expressed. As a comparison, you may remember that Hogarth was considered a minor artist when he was actually painting...
Elmer Richard Best '36 and Howard Buton Jaffee '36 have been awarded jointly the Elizabeth Wilder prize, given each year to the Freshman who, without any previous knowledge of German, writes the best paper in the mid-year examination. The prize, which is $150, was so closely contested this year that the Committee did not feel warranted to make a choice between the two winners...