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After this talk, the informal reminiscing of friends and past members of WHRB will be broadcast. Dean Leighton, Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and Archibald MacLeish, Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, have been invited to take part in these discussions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB to Mark 10th Year | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

Emily Dickinson's poetry is great partially because she wrote in an uninhibited manner, solely for herself, Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, said last night in the third of a series of lectures on "The American Characteristics of Classical American Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilder Speaks on Emily Dickinson | 11/30/1950 | See Source »

...Thornton Wilder will deliver his third Charles Eliot Norton lecture at 8 p.m. tonight at the New Lecture Hall. The playwright will discuss poetess Emily Dickinson in a lecture entitled: "Emily Dickinson or the Articulate Inarticulate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilder Talks Tonight | 11/29/1950 | See Source »

...life from an armchair, declared Playwright Thornton (The Skin of Our Teeth) Wilder, at Harvard for a few lectures. "I want to be exposed to the full shock-and-countershock of life. I don't want to be spared or saved from anyone or anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Work & Play | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Aericans--and particularly New Englanders.--have lived under an ethical framework which is much too big for them, Thornton Wilder said last night before an overflow crowd in the New Lecture Hall. His talk entitled. "Thoreau or the Bean-Row in the Wilderness," was the second in this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Americans Still Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation, Thornton Wilder Says | 11/16/1950 | See Source »

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