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...from Stewart and his wife put him “in good stead” for his later achievements. Gomes had his own thoughts to offer on what his friend might have felt about the proceedings. “I think he would have been mildly intrigued at the encomia his colleagues were presenting,” Gomes said. “He was shrewd, as I said—he knew how to separate the wheat form the chaff.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...Leibovitz's scholarly endeavors alone could not account for his national renown when he passed away last August. Indeed, the obituaries and encomia for him in Israeli newspapers made only casual mention of his academic career. Leibovitz was remembered--and will continue to be remembered--as a twentieth century gadfly, a latter-day prophet...
...those who spend this much time at 40 Brattle Street, the content and quality of the films shown assumes an overwhelming importance, and no one more jealously guards the Brattle standards than does the CRIMSON itself. Its reviews run from encomia to bitter harangues, such as the one which appeared in January, 1956, when the reviewer objected to what seemed to him a run of extraordinarily bad films...
...Encomia of praise to G. Emlen Hall and to Editor of TIME, the former for the idea and the latter for its execution. The Quiz was too marvelous and made this week's reading of TIME (Jan. 22) much more enjoyable (except it was a bit difficult remembering the exact number of Professor Woodruff's zeros...
...season progresses encomia will accrue to the Club's directors, but especially to Clifford Webster Barnes, founder of the club, onetime (1900-1905) Illinois College president, onetime (1918) Red Cross worker, capitalist, altruist, di vine. At Yale, Student Barnes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., made his first efforts to bring sectarians together. Later, in Paris, Student Barnes assembled a small interdenominational group. Luncheon friends among Chicago business men he persuaded to become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon...