David Hunter Hubel
David Hunter Hubel , 1926-, American neurobiologist, b. Ont., Canada. In 1958, Hubel joined Torsten Wiesel at Johns Hopkins Univ., and the two relocated to Harvard in 1959. Their most famous studies were in the area of visual perception, with particular emphasis on the nerve impulses mediating between the retina and the brain. They observed that various nerve cells were responsible for different types of visual stimuli. In 1981, Hubel and Wiesel received a Nobel prize for their research in neurophysiology.
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Hardcovers in Brief
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/15/1993; 700+ words
; ...Flies. This study traces Golding's influences, Joseph Conrad foremost among them, and sketches a theme...39.95). At one time James Branch Cabell, like Joseph Hergesheimer and Ellen Glasgow, stood among the most popular and...
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The Diary of H.L. Mencken.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 5/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...were conservative Republicans like Robert Taft and Joseph Ritchie, the governor of Maryland, whose following...above and, especially, the now long-forgotten Joseph Hergesheimer) had become, thanks to alcoholism, financial imprudence...
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Snob rule; H.L. Mencken thought Nietzsche was peachy, but he didn't like very much else - including democracy.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 5/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...were conservative Republicans like Robert Taft and Joseph Ritchie, the governor of Maryland, whose following...above and, especially, the now long-forgotten Joseph Hergesheimer) had become, thanks to alcoholism, financial imprudence...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/25/1995; 670 words
; ...Danchenko, playwright and director, 1943; Gertie Millar (Countess of Dudley), musical comedy actress, 1952; Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist, 1954; Constance Collier (Laura Constance Hardie), actress, 1955; Sir Carol Reed, film director...
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Smashing round in the China shop.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...though for some reason not The Great Gatsby), and also admired forgotten novelists like James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer. He regarded Robert Frost as "Whittier without the whiskers" and dismissed Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway...
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An Aborted Project.(planned biography of author Willa Cather)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...AAK her book of short stories, Youth and the Bright Medusa, to publish. Second story: WC had seen a copy of a Joseph Hergesheimer novel out of which fell a leaflet advertising another forthcoming Knopf publication by another writer. Thinking...
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Great writers knock things around at center court.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/12/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...re the most highly regarded, critically acclaimed, bestselling novelist of the 1920s, and the next you're "Joseph Hergesheimer, who he?" Twenty-five years ago, Zora Neale Hurston was a half-forgotten African-American writer; now...
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/1/1991; 700+ words
; ...Penelope Niven (Scribners, $35). Fame is fleeting, even for the most celebrated writers. Who now remembers Joseph Hergesheimer? or reads Marie Corelli? In his day Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) seemed a poet equal to Frost, a biographer...
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DISTINGUISHING A LEGEND'S LIFE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...old-fashioned and virginal, she cut a wide swath through Eastern intellectuals - Nathan, H.L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, James Branch Cabell, and Eugene O'Neill, all of whom openly admired her. Affron puts first things first...
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Message from a Maskil.
Magazine article from: Midstream; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Thanks to Zayde, I grew up among items like: The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories, The Collected Works of Joseph Hergesheimer (considered a great writer in his time, now long forgotten), H.G. Wells' The History of the World, and...
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Joseph Hergesheimer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Hergesheimer , 1880-1954, American novelist, b. Philadelphia. He first achieved...considered less artistic, are Balisand (1924) and Tampico (1926). Hergesheimer, who has been called a naturalist writing of the romantic past...
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Hergesheimer, Joseph
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Hergesheimer, Joseph (1880–1954), born...desires. In Java Head (1919), Hergesheimer turned to historic New England...Tol'able David .” Hergesheimer also wrote San Cristóbal...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...wrote a highly effective publicity brochure about Joseph Conrad. In 1914 he left Doubleday to work for the...American authors as Willa Cather, Carl Van Vechten, and Joseph Hergesheimer. As vice-president of the firm, however, Blanche...
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Saturday Evening Post
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Derr Biggers, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Frederic, Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert Herrick, Sinclair Lewis, J. P. Marquand, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth L. Roberts, and Arthur...
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Coatesville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Pa., on Brandywine Creek, in a farm area; settled c.1717, inc. as a city 1916. It is a steel center. Joseph Hergesheimer wrote about this region in The Three Black Pennys. The Revolutionary battle of Brandywine (Sept. 11, 1777...
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