Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byron T. Edwards...
...unanimous decision of the Committee, no first prize was awarded to an undergraduate. A second prize of $300 was given to John G. Campbell, Jr. '57. Two third prizes of $100 were awarded to Eric Rothstein '57 and to Robert H. H. Wilbur '57. Honorable mention was given to Byron Stookey, Jr. '57 and John G. Wofford...
LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora to stand for the restless "modern" woman, on Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character...
...Crimson JV crushed B.U., 12 to 1 with a 14-hit attack which included a home run in the fifth by John Kolsti. Byron Johnson went the distance for the JV's giving up seven hits. The lone B.U. score came in the first inning on the JV's only error...
Originally, the county was inhabited by Sartorises, Varners and Comptons. Now it is just about all Snopeses-the twins, Bilbo and Vardaman Snopes, Wallstreet Panic Snopes, Admiral Dewey Snopes, Byron and Virgil Snopes and Montgomery Ward Snopes. (The reader is grateful for an occasional mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...