Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard, to d'Entreves, is a bit of home. He feels that the University has preserved some European strands, and, in America, is closest to European "congeniality." "I am completely lost in New York," he confesses. Although gowns are not worn here, the Professor quotes the Italian proverb, "The garb doesn't make the friar." Harvard's liberal spirit and conservative facade make this University comfortable and familiar to d'Entreves...
...exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded, and American, rarely becomes the countenance of an empress...
...exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown on. the educated nostrils flare just the least little bit, and the rich low cello voice begins to murmur intelligently...
Private Worm. Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born 100 years ago in eastern Poland, which then, as now, was under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over...
...last eight minutes of the first half, the Lions tallied an incredible 33 points, to move from a one-point deficit to a commanding 54 to 35 halftime lead. Harvard slowed down the pace a bit in the second half, as Columbia settled to maintain its 19 point lead...