Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard students are invited to attend a mixer tonight (Friday, July 12th) in Memorial Hall, 8-12 p.m. --featuring sounds by the Bead Game, psychedelic lighting by The Rouffignac Electric Light Harmony and free re-freshments. Admission charge plus presentation of Harvard Summer School Privilege Card or Harvard-Radcliffe Bursar Card...
Died. Albion Harman, 52, "King" of Lilliputian (1.6 sq. mi., pop. 48) Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel; of a heart attack; in Barnstaple, England. For 800 years, the monarchs of Lundy (the island was first given to a nobleman by King Stephen in the 12th century; more recently, whoever owned the land held the title) battled mainland policies, minted the puffin, worth 1.9?, which was outlawed in 1931 when it ran afoul of British currency laws. Harman, whose father bought the island in 1925 for $80,000, rebuffed the mother country's efforts to incorporate the taxfree, school...
...between, there is the College Group, which will have "entertainment at the Varsity Club with The Dennis Pelley Duo" on Tuesday night, and the Senior Group (10th, 11th, 12th graders), which will go swimming at Crane's Beach on Thursday morning...
FitzGerald, a mid-Victorian belletrist and amateur Orientalist, carried this principle to an extreme when he translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. He condensed, combined and reshuffled the stanzas, dropping what did not suit him and pumping in generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal...
...seeming ease of production; in her portrait, he is an amiable but absent-mirded fowl who every now and then discovers that he has produced an egg. At any rate, in 1938, at the age of 32, White produced The Sword in the Stone, an evocation of "the 12th century or whenever it was," written as if remembered. It was without much question the best book for a twelve-year-old ever written, and a haunting delight for readers of any age. Besides unfolding the entire panoply of medieval life, it was a book of profound patriotic piety, distilling England...