Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was written by Wallach on behalf of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, a group of students in several eastern colleges "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the great French essayist...
...local officer of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, an organization which terms itself "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the Great French essayist," tossed a debate challenge last night on the doctrines of Father Leonard Feeney of St. Benedict's Center...
Died. Alexander Harvey, 80, Brussels-born onetime reporter (the old New York Evening Telegram), an editor on the New York Herald, and the Literary Digest, critic (William Dean Howells) and essayist; in Dumont...
...wrote the gentle essayist Charles Lamb, in phrases ardent as a lover's whisper, "is no less provocative of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices...
Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...