Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More moderate elements carried the day, however, and the Constitution was written to read...
...modest way (his manner rather suggests a family doctor), Leon Edel has "put to press" more than twenty books during the last twelve years, and read ten thousand of Henry James' letters. Now, during his visit here, he enjoys "peopling the streets of Cambridge" with the figures of that past era he works in and loves...
...people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
...much class discussion as possible in my teaching," Professor Edel says. "The act of reading is such a personal thing. I want students to see that it is an individual experience, and not look at a book as if it were behind a museum glass. You should read things out of a book, not into a book--this is what James wants you to do in Turn of the Screw. That's why Turn of the Screw will never be successful on television; James is ambiguous, and you can't be ambiguous on television...
...CRIMSON's headline on Oct. 31, 1921, read: "McMillin's Scintillating Dash Sends Crimson to First Defeat Since 1916. Raging Kentuckians Humble University Team by 6 to 0 Before Packed Stadium Crowd--Roberts Outdoes Himself...