Word: endower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gabrielle is the ancient Chimera brought to life-the head of a lioness, clawlike hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant...
...clinical departments--$33.5 million. The Program funds will endow at least 12 professorships, and more clinical teachers will be employed on a full-time basis. Development of medical and surgical specialties will be emphasized...
...which officially opened the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday evening, is a long, ambiguous, dispirited play that professionals can hardly cope with. It is, I suspect, outside the range of amateurs. Although they can and do go through the motions of telling a story with considerable competence, they cannot endow it with a point of view. Nor can they become classical actors by working hard and willing...
Ashmore. who takes over this week, is submitting some recommendations based on his year's Fund for the Republic study of the press. He proposes that U.S. newspapers endow, in perpetuity, a commission to sit in continuous examination of the press's strengths and weaknesses. As a man who has long believed that "journalism should serve as a two-way bridge between the world of ideas and the world of men," Harry Ashmore will probably find many bridge-building opportunities on the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...person represented. Its rear plane is flat and is frequently covered with columns of symbols. Yet some scholars suggest that the shaft is perhaps the most essential part of a Late Period statue, because it is the seat of the Ka, or vital force, thought to endow the subject with divine power...