...Philip N. Racine Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A Progressive Fights Efficiency: The Survival of Willis Sutton, School Superintendent Philip N. Racine During the last decade the movement toward progressivism in the classroom and efficiency in the administration of public...

...Philip N. Racine Emily Lyles Harris: A Piedmont Farmer During the Civil War Philip N. Racine Emily Harris, a South Carolina farmer s wife of the last century, might well have been missed as far as history is concerned except for the fact that she married a man who kept a journal. Her husband...

... illness. His admirable little book, Landmarks in French Literature (1912), and his well-known essays on Racine and Voltaire as well as numerous other writings contain abundant evidence of his sustained interest in French literature. His first published piece of prose, Two Frenchmen (1903), was a review...

... and created new forms and new art, as did Racine, whose highest ambi­ tion was merely to imitate Euripides. Often, however, as in Ronsard s epic La Franciade or in sixteenth-century Italian tragedy, imitation produced only something learnedly hybrid. But these very failures were fruitful in the long run...

.... It is not the eloquent description of the fondness of Beck­ ett s Trinity College tutor for Racine, but rather the passing refer­ ence to student notes taken during a lecture Beckett gave on Racine, which lends credence to the discussion of Beckett s own familiarity with Racine. The reader waits in vain for some similar...

... a ready-made theory. But is that theory built strongly enough to carry the weight of the novel and cinema as well? Was classicism classical? The century of Corneille and Racine ap­ parently provides an important model for the concept of classical narrative. According to the familiar account, French...

... and greater problem of his career, the sudden and short-lived flowering of his genius. The usual manner of dealing with this particular question has been to seek an answer by comparing the master with his only real rival, Racine. The latter s ease in the manipulation of the unities offered from the outset...

... be completed) three volumes out of five. Those authors alone really interested him. Indeed he measured everything and everybody by their standard, the standard of Corneille, Racine, Boileau, Pascal, Bossuet, especially Bossuet. His admiration, his worship for Bossuet was a subject of common pleasantry. In him...

..., in essence, already responded through his published translations. Now that I can invoke only his memory, I must explain why it seems to me that this question should be asked. We find the following statement in Celine s Prison Notebooks: Like Racine, I am rarely understood abroad. To some people...

..., the Shakespeares, or the Racines of this world we encounter men who are pessimistic with relation to man s destiny with relation, that is, to man s chances in life but optimistic with relation to man s being. They assert that man can be great, even though he is unhappy; which is a darker saying than Dante s...

... other in the movement of his poem but do not cancel each other out. In Oedipus and Hamlet these perspectives are harmonized, are fused, in a single vision: in these plays, the idea of a theater is most fully realized. But in Racine s Berenice and Wagner s Tristan, the vision is split in two; we have...

... these perspectives are harmonized, are fused, in a single vision: in these plays, the idea of a theater is most fully realized. But in Racine s Berenice and Wagner s Tristan, the vision is split in two; we have the drama of reason or the drama of passion. And the shifting separate visions of modern drama, brilliant...

... fellows, and the editors have spared no pains to add abundant data on that unfortunate class of persons. Johnson was a sportsman in a racin and shootin town; his diary and the editors, again in collaboration, provide a mine of information about the horsy set in Mississippi and New Orleans...

... on that unfortunate class of persons. Johnson was a sportsman in a racin and shootin town; his diary and the editors, again in collaboration, provide a mine of information about the horsy set in Mississippi and New Orleans. As for the hunting, Johnson was no more of a sportsman than his contemporaries in the Eng­...

... by its amplitude, the good humor in which the two delicious comedies keep us more than recompenses. But what real motive actuates the management of the Theatre National de 1 Odeon to present in one evening Corn­ eille s Horace and Racine s Les Plaideurs, two pieces that are as far apart as the poles...

..., arrangements, the creator, fortu­ nately, never being the man. The life of the former is not the life of the latter: collect all the facts about Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. . . . One is brought to the most honest system, which is to exclude all these exterior details...

... : 350; Racine and Bodin 1982 : 110). Some of the anticolonial organizations in England included the League Against Imperialism, the Negro Welfare Association, the League of Coloured Peoples, and the India League, all sponsored by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). The Party's journals...

... if the character and the moment require it. He is neither impious when he looks indignantly at Heaven and demands immediate answers of the gods, nor religious when he prostrates himself before their altars and humbly prays. . . . Why seek the author in the characters? What has Racine in common with Athalie...

... that might well have been provided for the novice or student, for whom the book is primarily designed. [holger o. nygard Kenneth Muir, Last Periods of Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1961, $4.50). In this short book, originally four lectures delivered at Wayne State...

... and the happy view of the art that is beauty. Homer and the dramatists, Virgil, Horace, Dante, Petrarch, Corneille, Racine, Spenser, Shakespeare, Tenny­ son, Goethe, and Schiller. These are the strong anchors of faith and hope for a sound criticism and a decent public taste, and to these great bulwarks...