Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, the visitors have much to learn about a side of Yanqui life that gets little publicity south of the border. One of the group, for example, is Estela Devoto, 22, a brown-eyed, bang-topped daughter of a wealthy Buenos Aires architect, who has worked as a welfare volunteer and is eager to fight poverty in the rural U.S. Her only exposure to the countryside to date has been on her father's 8,000-acre estancia 250 miles from Buenos Aires, where she rides a caballo criollo-an Argentinian equivalent of the American cow pony-among...
...five letters-J, K, W, X and Y-that have not been part of the formal Italian alphabet. It will cost about $5,000,000, fill 20 volumes, each 1,000 pages thick. It is all a labor of love for the academy's dynamic President Giacomo Devoto, who at 67 is not likely to live much beyond the publication of Volume I, scheduled...
...orchestra struck a humorous note with the Three Little Little Pieces of Mark DeVoto '61. In the first, very brief, piece, one anxiously awaited the entrance of the guitar player--who obliged with one strain at the very end of the movement. In the second, the sole twelve-tone piece, pizzicato strings, harp and per cussion executed difficult rhythms gracefully if not perfectly. At the end of the third piece, a dirge with an ostinato bass, the orchestra turned into a chorus and sang the final chord. Happily, Biss repeated the performance for an amused audience...
...answer to Kathleen DeVoto's letter [Nov. 1] asking why can't women play football: they ain't built right, thank God! And if they did play, I can just see all of those penalties for illegal use of hands and offensive and defensive holding...
...House Office next year will be a changed place; not only Master Perkins, but also the charming Avis DeVoto, widow of historian Bernard DeVoto, will depart in June. But one of Lowell's greatest attractions will remain, which Freshman ought to consider before choosing a House: Miss Eleanor Hess, the Senior Tutor's secretary, is surely an important part of Lowell's claim to greatness...