Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally paths of ice, and a man could have skated 100 miles from Boulogne to Beauvais. As rivers...
Died. Lawrence Langner, 72, founder, lifelong director and guiding spirit of the Theatre Guild, which turned repertory theater into a high art in the U.S., brought Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw to the Broadway stage and serious drama to other major U.S. cities; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Welshman who emigrated to the U.S. at 21, Langner organized the Theatre Guild in 1918 and saw it grow into a vast commercial success in the '40s and '50s with its own radio shows and scores of Broad way productions. A sometime playwright himself, Langner...
...obsessed with his poor handwriting, constantly practiced it as he traveled over his lands in the royal coach. Charles's son, Louis the Pious, began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal impulsiveness: while revolt flickered along all France's frontiers, Charles took his army off to Italy to help the Pope fight the heathen Saracens...
...takes a moment's time to decide whether the author has skewered a truth or merely shaken it up. The collectors have selected from the great aphorists such as G. K. Chesterton and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, but also from such little-known men of perception as Claude Bernard and the late Cesare Pavese...
...Science is We. -Claude Bernard...