Word: anglo-saxon
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...Germans say that Gromyko has "an Anglo-Saxon sense of melancholy." If this is so, it may be explained by the fact that he knows that he works for men who will blame him if he permits himself to be tricked by the Americans...
Establishing an interdisciplinary concentration would necessitate a radical change in the administration's philosophy concerning Latin American studies, "a development which I don't see happening. Harvard has had a strong reputation as a bastion of Anglo-Saxon history with a bias in European studies," says James Brennan, a Latin American history graduate student...
...scholarly edition of A Treatise of Heavenly Love, a 13th century meditation on virginity. Two virgins attend him: his pretty, unworldly teen-age daughter Tibba, named for a 6th century East Saxon princess, and Louise, his frumpy, incompetent, adoring assistant. (The manuscript is imaginary, and Wilson, who has taught Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, has fun cooking up swatches of 13th century English.) Giles and Tibba live in a bare house in Islington ruled by the dictates of his morbid sensitivity. There are no newspapers, and the radio is strictly a music box, Vivaldi preferred. Tibba thinks that the Whigs...
...close associate called the statement typical of Peterson, and attributed it to the temperament he had inherited from his Greek immigrant parents, whose surname was originally Petropoulos. Said the friend: "Everything Peterson said came from the heart. The key to the man is his Greek origin. No Anglo-Saxon could ever have made such an emotional and candid statement...
Robinson lived in Mather House last semester during his stay at Harvard. Before that, he taught for a decade at Yale, in addition to stints at Cornell and Stanford. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he is the author of a textbook on Anglo-Saxon, two bibliographies of writings on Old English, and more than 50 articles on various topics concerning the English language...