Word: cum
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...many people have heard of Cynthia Smith-until now. She is a 1969 cum laude graduate of the Law School, where she was Treasurer and Director of the Legal Aid Bureau. A resident of Cambridge, she practices law and manages Cave Atlantique, Inc., a wine importing firm which she founded with her husband. She is also a trustee of the Avon House, a well-known Social Agency in Cambridge. When Smith learned that only 200 signatures were required to place a candidate on the Overseers
...Robert F. Goheen coolly announced that he was going to become president of Princeton University. Born in India, the son of a Presbyterian medical missionary, he then swept (cum laude) through Princeton's feeder prep school, Lawrenceville. He worked his way through Princeton selling football tickets, graduated in 1940 with the school's top honor prize. After earning his doctorate (thesis: "The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone") at Princeton, he joined the faculty and became head of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, which aids future college teachers. When Princeton's trustees began looking for a new president...
When James Toback (Harvard, magna cum laude, 1966) flew to Los Angeles to interview Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns, summa, 1965), there were some unnecessarily dressy items in his mental luggage: Nietzsche's code about "the genius of the heart," Keats' concept of "negative capability," and that always stylish bit about the pre-eminence of the black's psychosexual powers...
Lance Morrow normally writes American Notes, as well as handling other Nation assignments (he is the author of seven cover stories). A Harvard alumnus ('63, magna cum laude), Morrow has written poetry and plays, acted, worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington and once spent nearly a year touring the U.S. in an old Volkswagen bus. According to McManus, "Morrow has the highest velocity vocabulary of any writer on TIME. But even his most recherché words are so exquisitely targeted that they often cannot be changed. Now we only allow him three zingers per issue...
Venus's-Flytrap. Fittingly enough, Philip (Alec McCowen), the hero of The Philanthropist, is a philologist. In Act I, Philip is insouciantly embroiled in a drawing-room-cum-bedroom farce; in Act II, he is mournfully bogged down in a talky self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist...