Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year. 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...
MISS U.S.A. BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). One of the nonevents television does so well, this 18th annual competition comes from the Miami Beach Auditorium. June Lockhart is hostess; Bob Barker emcees...
Economic Slide. The movement is named after Túpac Amaru, an Inca chief who rebelled against Spanish colonizers in the late 18th century and was subsequently executed. It has its origins in a sugar-worker protest movement that was formed seven years ago. A leftist activist named Raúl Sendic, who has been underground for years, is thought to be the leader of the Tupamaros. Economic discontent has undoubtedly helped the movement grow. A welfare state that assured its citizens full pay after retirement at the age of 55, Uruguay, once Latin America's richest nation...
...match went into extra holes yesterday and only two lasted to the 18th. The Crimson golfers, although not as sharp as usual still manhandled the hapless crew from Yale...
...cherry-wood block. Next, two engravers incised the design upon the block. Several black-and-white prints were made from it, and these were then glued to other blocks that were incised in turn so that each could be used to print a single color. In the early 18th century, print-makers were largely limited to various vegetable-based inks of red and yellow. By the 1740s, greens, blues and grays had been added to the spectrum. The artist Suzuki Harunobu is credited with developing the first nishiki-e, or full-color picture-named for nishiki-e, a richly embroidered...