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Bartlett Jere Whiting, 90; Mainer was teacher at Harvard, author
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Bartlett Jere Whiting of Northport, Maine, a Middle English
scholar who taught courses on Chaucer at Harvard University for 30
years and published popular histories of familiar American proverbs
and phrases, died of heart failure Aug. 24 in Waldo County Hospital
in Belfast, Maine. He was 90.
In his 1977 compendium "Early American Proverbs and Proverbial
Phrases," Mr. Whiting traced the saying "offense is the best defense"
back to the 18th century.
His first book, published in 195...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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(book reviews)
Folklore
; A Dictionary of Wellerisms. Edited by Wolfgang Mieder and Stewart A. Kingsbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xix +187pp. Hbk $24.95. ISBN 0 19 508318 0 This reviewer has maintained for some time that, parallel to the world of industry, the toolmaker is as important in the world of
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe
; Q. Who said "It takes a whole village to raise a child?" M.H., Essex A. Guy Zona in "The Soul Would Have No Rainbow If the Eyes Had No Tears" (Simon & Schuster, 1994), a book of Native American proverbs, attributes the quote to the Omahas, a Siouan-speaking tribe from Nebraska known for
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Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics
Voices
; Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics, by Wolfgang Mieder. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2005.323 pages, notes, bibliography, index, $24.95 paper. Senators Patrick Leahy and James Jeffords and Congressman Bernie Sanders may seem unlikely to have many books, let
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The proverbial collector: for decades, the University of Vermont's Wolfgang Mieder has been tracking the origins of thousand of common American proverbs. (Interview)
U.S. News & World Report
; Proverbs are concise statements-usually no more than seven to eight words-of an apparent truth that has currency. Notice I said apparent. Proverbs do not pr vide universal truths. After all, when compared, some are absolutely contradictory, such as Absence makes the heart grow fonder and Out of
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Proverb--antiproverb Wolfgang Mieder's paremiological approach
Western Folklore
; Wolfgang Mieder's scholarly activities can be divided into two major projects. On the one hand his work encompasses a multitude of detailed studies in the field of proverbs and sayings, and on the other it is marked by the endeavor to develop an overall framework for this research area. In doing
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