Word: bardes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authors, Protestant Housewives Judi Culbertson and Patti Bard, define some of the more popular plonks, gambits and counterploys...
Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
...skill. The close-ups require the whole company to mime, and they do so convincingly. Macmillan passes the toughest test in his delicate handling of the tomb scene. Here the dying are trying to make love to the dead, potentially a macabre situation without the saving grace of the Bard's poetry...
...accepts and purifies all things. But Jonson is like the tide: a cool comic moralist who spews upon the shore line all the debris of vice-infected humanity. In The Alchemist and Volpone, Jonson was a giant of comedy. Directing for the crude buffoonery characteristic of the Bard's low-comedy scenes, Irving turns him into a Shakespearean dwarf...
Delft, today best known for its china, was then the home of many other important painters-notably Jan Steen, who recorded a lustier side of Dutch life, and Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt's pupils who may have been Vermeer's teacher. In fact, a local bard, on the occasion of Fabritius' early death, portrays Vermeer, then only 22, as the phoenix who would rise to greatness in his place...