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Notified of the Soviet action Friday, Edward L. Pattulla, assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, also announced that James H. Billington, assistant professor of History, will lecture at Leningrad in March. Billington in an eighteenth century Russian historian, currently studying in Finland on a leave of absence...
...conference last week, Tish Baldrige described a few plans of the new First Lady to make the big house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a home: ¶ One of the rooms will become-for the first time since 1901-a nursery. ¶ Jackie plans to scatter some of her own eighteenth century French antiques and porcelains around the White House to give the family quarters a more familiar look...
Guests, friends of Adams House, and officers of the University celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of Apthorp House right regally last night. As was fitting and proper for the birthday of the eighteenth century building, now the residence of the Master of Adams House, order, harmony, and good cheer reigned...
Paying homage to Tastemaker Barr, Esquire gushed that he "commands what could be called a beautiful speaking voice. He constructs sentences of an almost eighteenth-century complexity without pausing to take breath...
...provides--but it often sounds self-conscious and sometimes resembles a parody of a bad historical novel. (A line like, "By gad, sir, she's as pretty a wench as ever I bedded!" seems right out of Forever Under.) Moreover, in his attempt to expand the scope of the eighteenth-century style to accommodate his expanded purpose, he resorts to frequent bursts of the stiffest, most intolerably pretentious sort of "fine writing...