Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these set a rare ambiance for a formidable showing. The group of three graduate students who set up the show made a selection representative of Winthrop's own preferences, accentuating French drawings and Chinese jades and bronzes. There are fabulous ritual bronzes--my favorites are a big bell from the Chou dynasty and a pouring vessel with a lion's head at the front and an owl on its back...
...book upon book onto our outstretched mind and carry the whole precarious pile, maybe 20 tottering books high into Emerson 105, take a seat, and for three hours pull out one book from somewhere in the middle and then another, like the old table cloth trick, and then the bell rings and you drop all the books on the floor and so much for formal education until next year...
...Daedalus. The editors consult a larger planning commission, usually associated with the Academy. The Overview Committee on the Goverance of Universities, for instance, met last April to plan a conference and volume on "Academic Ethics: Rights an Responsibilities." The Committee counts among its 15 members David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Martin Duberman, Talcott Parsons, Carl Kaysen, Neil Rudenstine, and two college presidents. They commissioned the articles, sent out invitations to the authors, and selected the critics and panelists for the conference (set over a half-year later). The conference--numbering 25 to 30 people--often takes place at the House...
...crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise it with bell, book and candle...
...diving bell of your head...