Word: drakes
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...vision of politics and culture from an earlier generation of intellectuals whose political life was, unlike these "Jack and Jill" revolutionaries, learned and serious. It was a vision shaped in the shadow of eminent black scholars such as Horace Mann Bond, Oliver Cox, Rayford Logan and St. Clair Drake, Kilson is from a later generation of intellectuals who stood their ground as young black radicals during the McCarthy era and as a consequence know only too well that real politics requires intellectual clarity and considerable sacfifice. It is for this reason and many others that Kilson "goes...
SECOND VARSITY 1. HARVARD (bow Austin Moore; 2, Michael Scott; 3, Ted Doolittle; 4, Tom Gill; 5, Claude Sirlin; 6, George Phipps; 7, Gordon Gwynne-Timothy, stroke, Max Drake; coxswain, Devin Mahony) 6:18.0.2. Northeastern...
...extraterrestrial origins for the iridium, attributing it first to a gradual process of sedimentation that concentrated the metal. Later an old favorite was proposed--volcanic eruptions, which might have forced iridium from the mantle to the surface. The most recent naysayers are Dartmouth Geologists Charles Officer and Charles Drake, who reported in Science on their studies of two other telltale elements in the clay boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. They found that the levels of arsenic and antimony correspond to decidedly terrestrial, not cosmic, concentrations...
...Alfred Drake, Zachary Scott, Herbert Lom, Farley Granger and Ricardo Montalban have all played the role, but for 34 years Yul Brynner has been the first and only King of Siam--an Oriental patriarch who is also a gigolo in jade. He is onstage perhaps half as much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma...
...Drake says the tours have changed little since Conant's tenure (1936-52) except for the occasional addition of new landmarks. "There is great interest in that fountain," she says of the recently-installed rock fountain outside the Science Center...