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February 16
1845 and 1904... The younger of the two, George F. Kennan, the diplomat and architect of the Cold War "containment strategy", was born in 1904 and named after his first cousin twice removed, George Kennan, born in 1845, who wrote Tent Life in Siberia, an affectionate and dramatic account of his adventures as a twenty-year-old from Ohio helping to survey a telegraph line across Russia.
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1845 and 1904... The younger of the two, George F. Kennan, the diplomat and architect of the Cold War "containment strategy", was born in 1904 and named after his first cousin twice removed, George Kennan, born in 1845, who wrote Tent Life in Siberia, an affectionate and dramatic account of his adventures as a twenty-year-old from Ohio helping to survey a telegraph line across Russia.
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October 17
1945 ...the story Gardner later loved to tell, that he mocked her when he caught her reading Kathleen Winsor's bodice-ripping bestseller Forever Amber. No doubt Gardner liked to tell it because just a few days after Shaw divorced her, hr rushed down to Mexico, where Kathleen Winsor herself, sultry enough that some thought she should star in the movie of her own book, became Mrs. Artie Shaw number six.
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1945 ...the story Gardner later loved to tell, that he mocked her when he caught her reading Kathleen Winsor's bodice-ripping bestseller Forever Amber. No doubt Gardner liked to tell it because just a few days after Shaw divorced her, hr rushed down to Mexico, where Kathleen Winsor herself, sultry enough that some thought she should star in the movie of her own book, became Mrs. Artie Shaw number six.
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October 16
1935 Dismissed on this day by the Nazi regime from his position at the University of Marburg because he was a Jew, Erich Auerbach arranged to resume his career in exile at Istanbul University, where he continued his labor on one of the monumental works of literary analysis. Mimesis, an imaginative and approachable multilingual survey of the literary representation of reality from Date to Virginia Wolfe.
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1935 Dismissed on this day by the Nazi regime from his position at the University of Marburg because he was a Jew, Erich Auerbach arranged to resume his career in exile at Istanbul University, where he continued his labor on one of the monumental works of literary analysis. Mimesis, an imaginative and approachable multilingual survey of the literary representation of reality from Date to Virginia Wolfe.
Judi
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October 15
1920 Katherine Mansfield, in the Athenaeum, on Gertrude Stein's Three Lives: "Miss Gertrude Stein has discovered a new way of writing stories. It is just to keep right on writing them. Don't mind how often you go back to the beginning, don't hesitate to say the same thing over and over again—people are always repeating themselves—don't be put off if the words sound funny at times: just keep right on, ...
— Oct 20, 2025 06:33AM
1920 Katherine Mansfield, in the Athenaeum, on Gertrude Stein's Three Lives: "Miss Gertrude Stein has discovered a new way of writing stories. It is just to keep right on writing them. Don't mind how often you go back to the beginning, don't hesitate to say the same thing over and over again—people are always repeating themselves—don't be put off if the words sound funny at times: just keep right on, ...
Judi
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October 14
1939 Ambitious and prolific, Thomas Merton spent his twenty-fifth summer with two friends in a cottage in upstate New York, each writing a novel he thought would make his name. Back in New York City in the fall, Merton got a publishers rejection slip for his novel on this day; when he called to ask why, they said it was dull and badly written, and Merton realized he agreed. But by that time his mind...
— Oct 19, 2025 05:43PM
1939 Ambitious and prolific, Thomas Merton spent his twenty-fifth summer with two friends in a cottage in upstate New York, each writing a novel he thought would make his name. Back in New York City in the fall, Merton got a publishers rejection slip for his novel on this day; when he called to ask why, they said it was dull and badly written, and Merton realized he agreed. But by that time his mind...
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October 13
1926 "We have so many bedbugs," Isaac Babel wrote his mother from Moscow, "that it has b become. legend among the other dwellers in our apartment."
— Oct 19, 2025 08:09AM
1926 "We have so many bedbugs," Isaac Babel wrote his mother from Moscow, "that it has b become. legend among the other dwellers in our apartment."
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October 12
1713 ... Bay Colony Institute of Technological Arts, has been summoned back to Europe to mediate the supremely irrational dispute between the two inventors of the calculus and thereby rescue the path toward progress that Root promises, with Stephenson's usual brand of anachronistic cheek, will ultimately make Waterhouse's own institute a glorious campus dedicated to the "art of automatic computing."
— Oct 18, 2025 05:54PM
1713 ... Bay Colony Institute of Technological Arts, has been summoned back to Europe to mediate the supremely irrational dispute between the two inventors of the calculus and thereby rescue the path toward progress that Root promises, with Stephenson's usual brand of anachronistic cheek, will ultimately make Waterhouse's own institute a glorious campus dedicated to the "art of automatic computing."
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October 11
1928 Arthur Sydney McDowell, in the TLS, on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "It is a fantasy, impossible but delicious; existing in its own right by the colour of imagination and exuberance of life and wit."
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1928 Arthur Sydney McDowell, in the TLS, on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "It is a fantasy, impossible but delicious; existing in its own right by the colour of imagination and exuberance of life and wit."
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October 10
19047 Fired as a publisher's assistant, William Styron reported to his father he was glad, since publishing is "only a counterfeit, a reflection, of really creative work."
— Oct 18, 2025 05:50AM
19047 Fired as a publisher's assistant, William Styron reported to his father he was glad, since publishing is "only a counterfeit, a reflection, of really creative work."
