Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has changed. Now the nation's fourth largest Roman Catholic university,* Jesuit-run Fordham has a healthy sprinkling of non-Catholics among its 6,997 full-time students. Strong in English, French, philosophy and the classics, Fordham now trails only Notre Dame in overall quality among Catholic schools, and is rapidly trying to catch up. Faculty salaries have been upgraded-the average pay of full professors, $13,543 in 1965, will reach $22,500 in three years-and the school is on the hunt for academic stars with the stature of Communications Pundit Marshall McLuhan, who will join...
...Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make me feel embarrassed; and indeed I do." All of which was a bit embarrassing to Muriel. "The O.B.E...
...that he could hear the cheers and applause following her performance. "When you can find a man who can do that for me," she said, "then I'll marry him." But no man ever did. In 1931, while sitting onstage during a performance of Jongleur de Notre-Dame in Chicago, she decided that "I have given enough," went to her dressing room after the last curtain call, put on her coat and never returned...
...schools' careful calculation of potential givers, plenty of money still comes in, as Fred J. Lauerman, a University of Minnesota fund director, puts it, "over the transom." Florence Dailey of Rochester, N.Y., a stockholder in Eastman Kodak, left an estate of $19 million to Notre Dame and Georgetown when she died last year. No official from either school had ever met her, and except for the fact that she was a Catholic, no one has yet discovered her special attraction to the two universities. When the University of Redlands began a fund drive in 1965, an alumnus...
...former nuns remain in the grip of the idealism that led them to the convent-and are seeking new ways to live out this ideal in secular life. One such experiment is the Community of Christian Service in Pueblo, Colo., founded last summer by 13 former Sisters of Notre Dame. The women took private vows of chastity and poverty, live and pray together in a house rented from the diocese. When not pursuing secular occupations-most of them are teachers-they do welfare work among the poor of Pueblo...