Word: basil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broad Categories. As honorary president of The Hague meeting, March of Dimes' President Basil O'Connor acclaimed "the beginnings of achievement in a worldwide, concerted effort of science-the first in history-to improve the quality of human life at birth." But he went on to warn: "This means that you must also be prepared to protect the human heritage from a possible proliferation of defective genes. It is humane to save the lives of sick children. It is neither humane nor morally defensible to permit the cause of their illness to be perpetuated if that...
Likewise, New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant attacked the suffix -wise, as in taxwise. He called it "a Madison Avenue locution which should be avoided by every civilized person." Author Basil Davenport grudgingly approved advise in the sense of notify. Even so, he ruled, it is permissible only "in business English and Army English, if there is any excuse for the existence of these bastard twins...
...Cover: Oil painting from life by Gerard de Rose. Background items include the spires of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; a portrait of Nabokov's mother at 34, painted by Leon Bakst in 1910; tiles from a Russian version of Scrabble; a brown wood nymph butterfly, and on the novelist's shoulder, a small blue Lycaena argiolus...
...gambled $71 million, loaned by the British government, on the concept of the ship as a floating resort hotel for young Americans willing to spend an average $72 a day for "the first vacation city that isn't tied down." "With this ship," says Cunard Chairman Sir Basil Smallpeice, "we are out of the transportation business and into the leisure business...
...HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). First rebroadcast since 1961 of Victoria Regina, with Julie Harris as Queen Victoria and James Donald as Prince Albert. Events in the Queen's life from 1837 through her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 are dramatized with aid from Pamela Brown, Basil Rathbone and Inga Swenson...