Word: bard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bard College Chester Bowles, former Ambassador to India LL.D...
...Theatre. Not only do these artists hope to get their daily bread, but also to mold a dynamic and living theatre. The Shakespearewrights are one of the most promising of these groups. Composed largely of Yale Drama School graduates, they have produced several works of the bard, and are now engaged in the U.S. premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia...
Robert F. Loeb, M.D., Bard Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, said that the three most important qualificaios for a physician were 1) compassion and understanding, 2) being a cultured human being, and 3) a grasp of the medical sciences...
...Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness, it's your love and pity . . ." The story closed movingly on Annie's first real triumph with Helen. As water trickled from the garden pump over her fingers, Helen made her first association between a word-water-and a thing...
Snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg lost a tooth (to a dentist) and gained a year, making him 79. On his North Carolina farm he was grinding out verses, more autobiography and strumming his old guitar. Prairie Bard Sandburg cheerfully prophesied: "I'll die propped up in bed, trying to do a poem about America...