Word: elisabeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calabrese '79, Nick Christakos '79, Jane Fayer '80, Gideon gil '79, Carl Rosen '80, Jay Yeager '79. LOWELL--Laura Besvinick '80, Linda Bilmes '80, Jim Deutsch '80, Peter Fleischer '80, Fred Haber '79, Jeff Wills '80. MATHER--Sarah Carpenter '81, John Gilbert '80, Maxine Pfeffer '81, Libby Pierpont '81, Elisabeth Rozen '81, Robert (Skip) Stern '81. NORTH HOUSE--Alexander Bok '80, Kim Jones '80, Sam Levin '81, Tom Prewitt '79. QUINCY--Betsy Adams '80, Scott Atherton '79, Robert Grady '79, Christopher Owens '81, Shirin Rajagopalan '80, Scott Starbird '79. SOUTH HOUSE--Ruben Alvero '80, Mark LaVergne '80, John Petropoulos...
Leverett House accepted seven transfer students, although last semester it could not accomodate any, Elisabeth Mahnke, the senior tutor said yesterday...
...singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were like a close-order drill in their precision. The delicate?and decidedly Mendelssohnian?woodwind passage accompanying Elisabeth's farewell was appropriately ethereal. The chorus, which has many roles in this opera (sirens, pilgrims, knights, ladies), sang like the virtuoso ensemble it is fast becoming under Levine and Chorus Master David Stivender...
CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF WORDS: JAMES A.H. MURRAY AND THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY by K.M. Elisabeth Murray Yale University Press; 386 pages...
Murray's granddaughter, K.M. Elisabeth Murray, has written a biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself-grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity and scholarship. Aside from personal difficulties, writes Miss Murray, James faced thousands of odd problems. He found a special class of "ghost words," misspelled or ill-defined items that had been admitted to some previous dictionary, thus undergoing an illegitimate birth. He worried over a word like condum (sic), later judged "too utterly obscene" for inclusion...