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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stewart's decision to go on sabbatical follows a similar announcement made earlier in the week by Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett. During Gill's full-year leave of absence, Jerome H. Buckley, professor of English, Will serve as acting House Master...
HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fantasy and fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, the misfit first rejected for the priesthood and then astonishingly elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style...
When Richard Nixon lost the California governorship race in 1962, an acerbic English journalist wrote a political obituary. "Nixon's record suggests a man of no principle whatever," chided the pseudonymous columnist "Flavus" in London's New Statesman. Flavus, alias John Freeman, then editor of the socialist weekly, added for good measure in 1964 that Nixon and some other leading Republican hopefuls were "discredited and outmoded purveyors of the irrational...
...course, there is the whole mystique of style. Most congenial to the eyes of modern collectors is the gracefully severe Queen Anne style, which was developed by French Huguenots who fled across the Channel to England to escape religious persecution in 1685. The rococo elegance of mid-18th century English designers like Paul de Lamerie has an extravagant appeal of its own. The robust baroque styles of the 17th century are rarer, but in some ways the most memorable of all. Last November, two James II tankards, delicately chased with drawings of posturing Chinese potentates, fetched $134,400 at Christie...
Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, will take a one-year sabbatical leave from Harvard beginning this June. In his absence, Jerome H. Buckley, Professor of English, will serve as acting Master...