Word: diversionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But most students enter extracurricular activities for recreation, and not recognition. Most stay away from representational activities but join foreign affairs clubs, drama groups, and publications because they have an interest in these fields. Most continue to enjoy these clubs as diversion from study, and do not seek executive positions...
At the great monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, in the mid-1700s, a young Spanish priest named Antonio Soler used to teach music to His Most Serene Highness the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de Borbón. For the Infante's further diversion, Father Soler specially composed...
PRIX GONCOURT. Hardly anyone had heard of the winning book, Saint-Germain, ou la Negotiation, before the award was announced, but the prize assures a sale of 100,000 copies. Written by Francis Walder, a retired Belgian artillery officer turned minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction...
There are those who would question this analysis. There are those who would say: 1) that there is nothing more in this play than is contained in the beer glasses raised in the final scene, that the movie is essentially comic. There are those who would say: 2) that the...
Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, who in 1945 rode out of the West (the philosophy department of the University of Wisconsin) and, Lochinvar-like, captured the hearts of blue-jeaned undergraduates as the nation's youngest (30) college president. Handsome Harold Taylor skied, played tennis, taught classes at Manhattan...