Word: bards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s, Asher Edelman seemed to have a magic touch. Bright, brash and hyperconfident, he reaped more than $40 million in instant profits for himself and his investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world-class author in splendid form...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in splendid form...
Coach Mark Morris is perhaps the most quotable bard in the ECAC. The league should consider awarding the Golden Knights a few extra victories just for having Morris behind the bench...
...bard is not back at center stage in Literature and Arts A. Despite a promise in last year's course catalog, the Core is not offering a course in Shakespeare this year. This spring, though, Professor of American Literature and Language and Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors will teach a new Literature and Arts A course on "Ethnicity in Modern American Literature and Culture...