Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Casseres is a mixture of La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, and possible Spinoza. His criticism is not sound in the sense that it builds up a carefully constructed argument, but he pierces every situation with a shaft of illuminating light that is more revealing than any quanity of common sense. He goes at the reason through the emotions and he arrives with an awakening crash. It may be froth, it may be genius; Mr. De Casseres himself probably does not know...
...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House...
Harvard's football team went through a light practice session yesterday but in the signal drill that finished up the workout Coach Horween shifted his teams around considerably indicating that there might be several lineup changes when the Crimson plays William and Mary on Saturday...
...baby in its cor--rather a repulsive and fretful brat." Its whims, according to Mr. Douglas, have doomed whatever pretenisons it may ever have had. England in particular is lost: her morals and manners, government and social institutions are all presented in the cold and keenly satiric light of the author's wit, a wit which will compare not unfavorably with the most malicious in history...
...area cleared there are three separate types of building: the private house, the great palace, and the temple. It is in the latter two and particularly from the temple that most material of artistic value has come to light. Here the Nuzians gave abundant and convincing proof of their skill as artisans and of their understanding and feeling as real artists...