Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When New York City announced plans to display the long-secret court records of Aaron Burr's 1836 divorce case, in which the 80-year-old ex-Vice President was accused of adultery, at least one part-time historian was unexcited. "It's all in my book," points out Gore Vidal, who pieced the story together accurately for his historical novel Burr, without aid of court records. "I have never seen them. I've just gone on other people's word." Of Burr's long-lived virility, Vidal added: "Burr was a small, trim little...
...quality that elevates those chosen institutions above their peers is, quite simply, Quality-as denned in a recent issue of W, the biweekly tattler of taste and chic presided ever by John Burr Fairchild. Since it was launched three years ago last week by the graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread...
...registration meeting for spring soccer instruction will be held today at 7:15 p.m. in Burr A. Soccer coaches George Ford and Seamus Malin will be teaching classes aimed at people who have played little or no soccer but would like to learn...
Most Harvard administrators interviewed last week said women in the Harvard Houses altered the atmosphere of House life more than any other factor. Whitla said women living in the Houses "got rid of the hated parietal rules, which had been a burr under the saddle of so many people. And it improved the tone of the House and dining hall." Finley agrees: "The introduction of girls was a very monumental step in an intellectual direction. Conversation is politer because girls are not so bullish...