Word: calverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drugs & Dreams. Like Candide, Ebenezer has a tutor-one Henry Burlingame, an unreconstructed rascal who appears throughout the book in a variety of disguises, extricating Ebenezer from the folly of his own innocence and "playing the world like a harpsichord." Disguised as Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Burlingame appoints Ebenezer Poet and Laureate of the Province of Maryland, commissions him to compose an epic poem to be called the Marylandiad...
Abell was willing to catalogue municipal flaws ("Anybody in want of a dead pig can find one in Calvert Street"), but he largely ignored politicians as low types ranking somewhat beneath Baltimore's criminal element...
...Calvert W. Watkins '54, instructor in the Classics and in Linguistics, will become assistant professor of Linguistics and the Classics effective July 1. Watkins specializes in Old Irish and related Celtic languages. During the academic year 1961-62 he will serve as visiting lecturer at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies...