Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. Chief Editorial Writer Lindsay Hoben, 51, who joined the paper in 1925, runs the five-man staff of editorial writers. Publisher Irwin Maier, 54, devotes his time to keeping the balance sheet healthy, and Business Manager Donald B. (for Byron) Abert, 46, who ably runs the plant operations, good-naturedly admits that marrying Grant's only child, Barbara, has helped his climb. Says Grant "Some men get s.o.b.s for sons-in-law. I'm lucky...
Splendid Poseur, by M. M. Marberry. How Joaquin Miller, the "Byron of the Rockies," persuaded his generation that he was a poet (TIME...
Robert Burns followed his regimen so strenuously that at his death in 1796, he was known not only as Caledonia's bard but as the Scottish Casanova. Popular legend made him a victim of wine, women and song. Less censorious, and more in accord with modern views, Byron saw Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson...
...Joaquin Miller, the "Byron of the Rockies," persuaded his generation that he was a poet (TIME...
However, Princeton would be a serious challenger to Harvard's supremacy, because of the depth of talent it would have available. Byron Shatter and wingback Earl Byrne, for example, would make a fine end combination...