Word: baron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gays, Shilts notes with confidence, have served well since the American Revolution, although his evidence for Baron von Steuben's predilections does not support the designation "gay general." But even if the baron had ridden sidesaddle into Valley Forge, it is unlikely that he would have been turned away. George Washington desperately needed his Prussian expertise...
Haste eventually fails for one of Diana's suitors, Baron Waste, a Scottish officer whose role in the plot is never quite clear. Haste and Waste finally get together in a long dungeon scene, the most tedious of the show...
Some artists drop through the cracks, and for a long time, it looked as though Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was one of them. His retrospective at London's Royal Academy of Arts, curated by Wendy Baron and Richard Shone (until mid-February, then at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam), is the first deep look at Sickert the British have had in almost 30 years. In America, he is virtually unknown. No museum has ever acknowledged him, and if you dip for his work into the big public collections, let alone the private ones, you will come up empty...
...Beth A. Baron '92-'93, a special concentrator in American Deaf Studies and past chair of the committee, coordinated the workshop as part of her senior thesis project...
...Baron became interested in Deaf Studies after taking an introductory sign language course. The concentration focuses on "looking at the deaf community as a linguistically and culturally oppressed community in the U.S., and not as a disabled group," she said...