Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered the unexplored land, included fierce meetings with "white bears" (grizzlies), narrow escapes in strange and unfamiliar surroundings, and new sights and marvels that...
Mann himself was a product of the old European order and tradition. He had been born to a life of large and splendid ease in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, one of the historic free cities of North Germany. When he was born, Wilhelm I was Kaiser, Bismarck was Chancellor; his father, a prosperous merchant, had been Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck. His mother was the daughter of a German planter in South America who married a Portuguese Creole. Mann studied literature in Munich, journeyed to Rome, and at 25 had a stupendous success with...
...customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth $132,500, made partial payment with a $100,000 check that bounced. Unable to collect from Schlesinger...
...mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe and the Earls of Oxford, Derby, Rutland...
...will underlie the year's work. Parallel Lives. In anthropology, students may concentrate on underdeveloped areas. In law, they may study the unification of legal systems and the transition from national to supranational law. In history, they study what Brugmans calls "parallel lives"-e.g., the careers of Richelieu, Bismarck, Cavour. "A Frenchman," says Brugmans, "reacts favorably to Richelieu and unfavorably to Bismarck. Yet these men accomplished the same task in roughly the same way." In five years the college has had only one failure. A young Frenchman whose father was killed by the Nazis found that he just could...