Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room...
...have been before or since," the hero myth got off to a head start. It dominated Lincoln literature until the end of the 19th Century. Josiah Holland's Life, which appeared within a year of Lincoln's death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable facts, well garnished with folklore and parsley...
Graduate school delegates Andrew E. Rice and Jack Hirshieifer worked with the international panel. Regional president Jaffa, Divinity School representative, led the deliberations of the sub-panel on affiliation with the International Union of Students, a world youth group...
...late O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter), father of the high-gear, machine-tooled short-short story, was finally honored with a tangible memorial in the home of his youth, but he had to share it with a salve manufacturer. The memorial: a reproduction, in the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Museum, of the drugstore where the writer (and the salve man) once worked...
Lack of proper child guidance is Morris' chief complaint against the present system. His platform calls for a complete achievement record to be kept on each individual pupil, so that a precocious block builder would possibly be steered into the construction trades as a high school youth...