Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he looks like a British version of Mr. Peepers, the likeness ends there. Theater Critic Bernard Levin is the enfant terrible of London's West End. Long the Manchester Guardian's television reviewer, he grew "weary of spitting into the wind" in 1958 and quit. As an irascible panelist for the BBC's satiric That Was the Week That Was show, he once greeted a group of farmers with the words, "Good evening, peasants." But it is in his theater reviews for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and more recently for the Daily Mail that...
...House Office next year will be a changed place; not only Master Perkins, but also the charming Avis DeVoto, widow of historian Bernard DeVoto, will depart in June. But one of Lowell's greatest attractions will remain, which Freshman ought to consider before choosing a House: Miss Eleanor Hess, the Senior Tutor's secretary, is surely an important part of Lowell's claim to greatness...
Picked by many to finish on top, the Canadiens were plagued by injuries to goalie Jacques Plante, defensemen Tom Johnson and Lou Fontinato (who is in hospital with a broken neck), and forwards Bernard "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, and Gilles Tremblay. Rookie defenseman Terry Harper and newly acquired left-winger Bill McCreary will prove valuable to the club in the coming Stanley Cup playoffs...
They were not calculated to delight space fictioneers. Although such respected astronomers as Harvard's Harlow Shapley and Britain's Sir Bernard Lovell have speculated that there may be hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies capable of supporting life, Mariner's sensitive instruments testified that Venus does not rate a place on the long list. It appears to be hot and dry and dead. If there is any life at all-a doubtful possibility at best-it must float as dustlike microorganisms in comparatively cool clouds...
...Attorney General, Philadelphia Lawyer Bernard Segal, chairman of the Federal Judiciary Committee of the American Bar Association-"a man who when he went before the Supreme Court would not be arguing his first case before a court...