Word: boyd
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Robert Skinner Boyd '49 has always been a linguist...
When he came to Harvard College more than 50 years ago, the young Boyd dreamed of someday uncovering an ancient and long-forgotten language and writing about his discovery for the edification of equally obscure academics...
...Boyd-who speaks a half-dozen languages-ultimately built a life around the art of English itself, rather than anything so foreign as the phonology of ancient Mesopotamia...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Boyd has spent decades covering the glorious-and the ignominious-scenes of American political life...
...Boyd's gift with words found a much more practical outlet. Harvard may have taught Boyd about languages, but as a reporter, Boyd spent a career showing exactly how words are to be used, and what they are to be used...