Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alas, that grande dame of the Paris skyline, the 1,052-ft.-tall Eiffel Tower, is ailing. Parisians fretted last week as the French press disclosed that their cherished 88-year-old monument was in need of $10.5 million worth of repairs. Most alarming is the condition of one of her antique hydraulic elevators that take visitors from the second to the third observation platform. The newsmagazine L 'Express quoted from a confidential 1970 report by the tower's chief engineer, who had warned of the lift's "serious fatigue." A cylinder might burst, he contended, causing...
Carter's Notre Dame speech, considered his most definitive statement on foreign policy, had biblical overtones ("But through failure we have found our way back to our own principles and values"). So did some press conference remarks last week ("I think there is a general sense in the world we had better get our own houses in order"). Also, a fortnight ago, Carter called a White House meeting of ten Southern Baptist leaders to plan global missionary strategy, a rare blending of presidential aura with a religious program...
...course, what distinguishes Harvard recruiting from the rest of the Ivy League are only a few minor differences compared to the differences between the Ivy League and the real world of Notre Dame and Ohio. The most important difference is money: the Ivies have placed strict limits on athletic scholarships and grants-in-aid, which means the average Ivy League athlete can't make a living out of going to school. This restriction places all the Ivies in a bind--they simply cannot compete with Midwestern athletic mills on a financial basis. Yet Harvard, despite these handicaps, continues to place...
...Thomas Bergen Collection of German Expressionist Drawings provides an opportunity to view Expressionism in the terms in which it progressively defined itself. Sixty-five drawings from Mr. Bergen's collection, selected by the Art Galleries of Notre Dame University, are presently on exhibit at Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum and will subsequently travel to SUNY at Binghamton, Cornell University, and the University of Houston. Hanging around in academic circles seems appropriate to a collection which is scholarly in the best sense of the word; which culls from the stereotype the accurate insights hidden beneath connotations and vagueness. In focusing...
...evening, and the management hopes that the girls will come back some day for their weddings. Around Long Beach, Calif., one of the most popular prom spots is aboard the Queen Mary, now serving as a floating hostelry in her genteel retirement. The ballrooms of the onetime grande dame of the North Atlantic are crowded with ten or so dances a week, and the demand is so high, says Scheduler Ann Hunter, "that we are already booking proms...