Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Harvard lost the ball on errors three straight times, the Middies took advantage with Tolmie, Scott Semko and Bob Conrad leading the attack and within three minutes, Navy held an eight point margin...
Vladimir Nabakov, like Joseph Conrad, is a foreigner who has become one of the most important stylists in English; but, unlike Barth, he deals with human beings, not metaphysics. The charm, for instance, of the novel Pnin (included in its entirety in Nabokov's Congeires) comes not so much from the telling of the story as from the character of Pnin, a hapless professor of Russian in a small American college. There may be no real separation between style and content, but Nabokov uses his style to create a believable man, charming and pathetic. Having just fallen down a flight...
...student-faculty committee in the Anthropology Department will meet early next week to discuss the planned renovation of Peabody Museum, said Geoffrey W. Conrad '69, one of the two undergraduates in the group...
...husband was taking off on another of his record-breaking flights, so Betty Conrad gave him a big kiss and "a squeeze you won't forget for two months." He won't. Upon landing in Calgary, Alta., on the first leg of a flight that he hopes will make him the first man to solo a light plane over both poles, Max Conrad, 65, the famed flying grandfather, discovered that his wife's enthusiastic embrace had left him with a cracked rib. "I'll get even with her on New Year's Eve when...
...Died. Conrad Richter, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (The Town), who wrote of U.S. pioneer life in 20 books, including The Trees, The Light in the Forest; of a heart attack; in Pottsville, Pa. With a sure ear for its speech and a shrewd eye for its manners, Richter brought early America to life. The cowboys, Indians and farmers of his novels are more than fictional characters; they are, as one critic noted, explorers who give the "truest picture of the everyday realities of frontier life...