Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whiskyfied Scholars. Two years later Smellie had written, or pasted together from such sources as Hume, Locke, Voltaire and Francis Bacon, the remaining two volumes. The 2,659-page set contained a long description of Noah's ark and a terse write-off of "Woman": "The female of man. See HOMO." It advised that tobacco could desiccate the brain to "a little black lump consisting of mere membranes." It was salted with 160 excellent engravings by Bell, including a handsome map of North America...
...assembled Seniors and their guests will also hear the Class Poem of Erich W. Segal. The Class Ode, written by L. John Felstiner will be sung by Chorister Frederick Brozer...
This prize is given for the best papers written for any one of the various Natural Science courses...
...addition to composing, Chavez has conducted the Mexican National Symphony, and has been guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic. He served as director of Fine Arts in Mexico, and has written the book Toward a New Music...
...Harold Louis) Humes Jr., 32, a founder of the little magazine Paris Review, has written a huge (755 pages) book which is the most indefatigable first novel of the year. Humes writes in a documentary, now-it-can-be-told style of a man who believes that he has the Government Printing Office at his tax-free disposal. Yet those who are prepared to do their own, rather than the novelist's job of winnowing a peck of wisdom out of a stockpile of fact will not be ill rewarded...