Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his work has dealt mostly with intellectual history, Gilmore was particularly pleased several years ago when Professor Langer approached him with the request that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, insured for $500,000, it appeared last month on television. Omnibus devoted a Sunday afternoon...
...Hero Podres just resting his left hand in your Oct. 17 picture, or does he bat and write righthanded...
...Hiroshima maidens who journeyed to Manhattan for plastic surgery have asked us to write you and tell you that they have seen the Oct. 24 story of their progress. They feel you should tell the American people of the other devoted members of the project whose time, labor and efforts have been as important to their return to life as even the surgery itself. The three men who have made their trip possible and who have been saintly in their care for them have been Mr. Norman Cousins, Dr. Arthur Barsky and Dr. William M. Hitzig. Dr. Hitzig, who brought...
...country of the little magazine, the off-beat college and the mobile-hung menage.-It is more remorselessly competitive than the business world to which it feels superior. It is a world always at war, and Mary McCarthy's far-from-secret weapon is to write her enemies-and friends-into her books. Despite her demurrers, the game of "spot-the-model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct) won his McCarthy Purple Heart as Macdougal...
Muir continued his travels, searching for a place to settle down and "habituate myself to the rhythm of life." It was not until he was 35 that he felt "a spring released in my life" and he first began to write poetry. Now he looks back with pleasant reminiscence on the years as a clerk in a bones-to-charcoal factory, as British consul in Prague, as headmaster of a workingmen's school, and as head of a British education program in Czechoslovakia...