Word: bard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE, The Bard of Bootstrap...
...decided that "status is not the issue." To the jíbaros, the country men, he promised labor laws and land reform instead of independence. He urged voters to "lend me your vote" rather than sell it to the opposition. His followers called him El Vate (The Bard) and elected him to office. In those days, needlewomen who worked at home in the island's second biggest industry after sugar were getting just 3? for hemming a dozen handkerchiefs...
...however, a student who received his tutor's permission were allowed to sign off board, neither difficulty would arise. No slew of rate adjustments would bom-bard the bursar's office, for the privilege would be restricted to those on scholastic missions. But the College and its officers should be aware that by remitting the board charges they may encourage needy students to do valuable research on theses, work which might otherwise be neglected...
...killed him? Who killed the cool, cool Bard, With his foul, foul "poems?" You killed...
Besides the many scholars and crackpots who have used historical clues to show that someone else-usually Sir Francis Bacon-must have written Shakespeare's plays, scores have turned to cryptology to prove that the Bard's words were in a kind of cipher that concealed messages from their true author. Last week, in a new book called The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge University; $5), U.S. Cryptologists William and Elizebeth Friedman gave evidence that should discredit these investigators once and for all. The Friedmans' credentials are impressive: William led the team that broke the Japanese "purple" code...