Word: classicized
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...into again, and always with pleasure and refreshment. It is also a book to keep -and a book that can be reread again and again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention...
...annual classic on the Thames, as the sporting writers have it, marks the end of a memorable Commencement week. Long after the names of this or that speaker or graduate have been forgotten, the memory of the heat will linger. Honors and oratory, spreads and dinners have developed a sense of weariness and have evoked bad temper rather than enthusiasm...
President Wilson's first statement of policy was an anticlassical proclamation. " The Classic languages said the new President, " are dead issues. There is no necessity for their inclusion in the curriculum here. It is my intention to teach the children of the farm how to raise better hogs and produce more cotton per acre; that is the reason they are here...
...Author. Hermann Sudermann shares with Gerhart Hauptmann the perhaps dubious honor of being considered a contemporary classic by his own nation in his own time. He is chiefly famous as a novelist and dramatist and his reputation in both fields is international...