Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Bernard Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession, with Charlton Heston, June Lockhart...
...become a powerful symbol in U.S. education. Though most off-campus Americans pretend not to care much about it, most know what it is. Those who wear it can be as different as Franchot Tone and Senator Paul Douglas, as Paul Robeson and Senator Robert Taft, as Byron ("Whizzer") White and Helen Wills Moody. But they all have one thing in common: they got good marks in college...
...Byron Nelson...
...letters or natural science while rusticating or ruminating at either place, for he would not have said that Oxford has the edge in poetry, nor would he have failed to recognize the distinction of Cambridge in the field of science. Can Oxford possibly match Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge . . . or Bacon, Harvey, Darwin...
...Author Ehrsam contributed proof of Major Byron's Shelleyana fakes in Robert Metcalf Smith's The Shelley Legend (TIME...