Word: babington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other members of the cast--John Babington, Sheila Hart, Joan Tolentino, and Daniel Seltzer--play members of the Russian gentry, and because they do not strain for big laughs, receive respectful smiles of admiration. Ted D'Arms, a great bear of a man, is particularly good, in spirit as well as carriage...
Terrace Club has voted to hold "open Bicker." As long as there is space, anyone who wants can join. Campus Club also voted to open its books in February, but its graduate board, which effectively runs the club, would not allow it. Thomas K. Babington, president of Campus, made the announcement last week: "The board is not amenable to the idea of non-selectivity for a mere segment of the street. They will support this club in maintaining the principle of selectivity." As a result, 11 members have said they will resign in protest...
Frenetic Blessing. Neither the nation's business nor its social life could have assumed today's form without the airlines. "Of all the inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted," wrote English Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1848, "those which abridge distance have done the most for the civilization of our species." The age of commercial jet travel, not yet eight years old, has not only shriveled distance to a degree far beyond Macaulay's vision, but has spread that frenetic blessing to hundreds of millions of people...
...done just that. From page 1 of the book, when he sets the stage for Kennedy's Inauguration by describing the "eerie beauty" of blizzard-bound Washington, to page 1031, when he rings down the curtain on a snow-covered grave in Arlington, he follows Thomas Babington Macaulay's dictum that "a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated...
...books did the late Dame Rose Macaulay bestow more love and scholarship than on Pleasure of Ruins, her unique evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve in color, make a perfect setting for Dame Rose's text. In these pages the wayfarer irresistibly shares the author's "intoxication...