Word: edith
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ONCE UPON A TIME, on the planet Cronk, Lords Nietzsche and Namath spoke unto Archie and Edith and told them, "Lo, this planet is full of evil and we shall destroy it. Build thou a rocket ship and send thy child in it and he shall be a saviour to the planet Earth." And Archie and Edith did as the gods commanded. Cronk was annihilated and the blue-haired infant arrived in America, discovered and adopted by an elderly and kindly couple, Franklin and Eleanor...
...Edith E. Scott '80, another Social Studies concentrator, said yesterday she does not think the new requirements would be a deterrent to students interested in a Social Studies major...
...families earn more than $21,000 per year-a cut above the average for the typical German suburb. Nonetheless, a lingering frugality engendered by the war years pervades Rösrath and makes the residents far more energy-conscious than their counterparts in Hinsdale. Says Housewife Edith Szyperski, 42: "When we were children we had to save. We often had petroleum only a few hours...
Comparisons between cultures are difficult, yet, in broad terms, the West Germans estimate that they use about half as much energy per capita as their American counterparts. For many people in Rösrath, even that is too much. Edith Szyperski reports that her 33-year-old maid, who was a year old when World War II ended, sometimes wastes hot water. "It bothers me so," says Mrs. Szyperski, and she makes a fist to show her tension-and her memories...
...scandal of London in the 1920s was the young poet Edith Sitwell. She paraded around dressed in exotic costumes and wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote positively outrageous poetry and she went around discovering other poets, like Dylan Thomas, who were even more scandalous than herself. Facade, now playing at the Loeb, is the effective staging of Sitwell's previously unstageable poetry set to the sparkling music and witty and irreverent dance parodies of the young William Walton. The action, wild enough at its first performance in 1923 to have the fire department be called in, takes place...