Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long considered the aristocrat of concentrations, History and Literature still holds its scholarly head above the onslaught of group tutorial. Limiting enrollment to a flexible 50 per class, it demands added work, offers near-individual tutorial, and is consistently high in honors percentages. In fact, it is a field that presumes candidacy for honors...
Died. Ezequiel Pedro Paz, 81, editor and publisher (1898-1943) of Argentina's La Prensa; in Buenos Aires. A towering, pince-nezed aristocrat, he made the newspaper founded by his father into one of the world's great dailies, equaled only by the New York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported...
...marry. Her father is a boor who unfailingly pours the sour wine of shop talk at the evening meal. Her mother is an amateur pianist with an outlook on life as romantic and melancholy as a Chopin nocturne. When Sandra's mother falls in love with an effete aristocrat, Papa Corteggiani crushes her with a phrase or two, e.g., "All women are . . . sluts," and she drowns herself in the Tiber...
...came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
...Moscow echoes in his speech, Allied Intelligence agents questioned him last week. Reichenau's explanation: he had salted away $1,000 a month during his 20-year stint as a military adviser to the Chinese Nationalists. Protested Von Reichenau: "It is absurd to accuse an aristocrat of cooperating with Communists . . . As others find pleasure in theater and dancing . . . I am a collector of soldiers' opinions...