Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Established by the terms of Santayana's will, the fund provides for the annual appointment of "a person of any age or nationality who may be thereby enabled freely to devote himself, in any place of his choice approved by the Harvard Corporation, to the subjects which have occupied my...
A few weeks ago, a student football manager was caught scalping tickets. Informed of the charge, his immediate superior said "the implications made regarding the football community are absurd and not worthy. of comment." This statement reminded the University that the students and officials who devote their time to the...
Critical and public reaction to Radulovic's new show gave him hope that he might now be able to devote himself full time to painting-and still eat. The Art
Pathology at times gives way to sex, e.g., Jean takes the reader to the annual Interns' Ball, one of the most remarkable orgies allowed anywhere in the world. But as in U.S. novels about young doctors, Jean decides at the end that he wants to settle down with a...
The year 1859 flares up in English literature like a volcanic eruption. In that one year were published (wholly or in part) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Thackeray's The Virginians, George Eliot's Adam Bede, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Darwin's...