Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...
...preacher of Ecclesiastes gave the list of sublime inevitabilities: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." There was once a cultural geographer named Ellsworth Huntington who suggested-ethnocentrically, his critics later said-that people who lived without seasons could never develop character. So much for the mañana cultures. So much, in fact, for San Diego. Such cultures had no Darwinian need for foresight, Huntington thought, no drive to store up nuts for winter. They did not feel that stirring of energy and anticipation and pragmatic dread when the first chill...
...declaration that individuals are not guilty because of their wants or needs, or guilty but something else. Instead, society must reassert the importance of moral, not quasi-medical, decision making It is time to abolish the insanity defense, not to propose alternatives like guilty-but-mentally-ill. Ellsworth A. Fersch...
Travers had charged that the shooting and another incident of alleged harassment in late September were related to his activities as an organizer of the Broadway-Ellsworth Tenants' Association...
...drawings of the architectural designs of Myron Goldsmith. Gand Hall lobby, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge MA. October 26-November 12, Monday-Sunday, 9 a.m. 5 p.m. pledged to survey. "If word get our show would a run on our supplies, " he explained from his Ellsworth A yeas house...