Word: ernste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also bestowed degrees on three well-known American academics, including zoologist Ernst Mayr, historian John M. Blum '43, and sociologist Robert Merton; and two British scholars, economist Joan V. Robinson and legalist Herbert L.A. Hart...
...Everyone was grubbing really hard for jobs," Katherine Ernst Wulfeck '30 remembers. "There was no work." Most Radcliffe women of that time expected to get married or to become teachers, Wulfeck says, adding, "I decided not to become a teacher since all the women in my family had been school teachers. One of us had to be rebel." So Katherine Ernst took a small inheritance ("and it was small, even in those days") left by a grandmother and enrolled in a small secretarial school. "It was unheard of to go from Radcliffe to secretarial school," she says. "but when...
Most of the women of the Class agree that 1930 seems to have unfolded into 1980 almost overnight. Ktherine Ernst Wulfeck '30 remembers "my aunts telling me how quickly life passes and not believing them. I always wanted to be as old as my sister, and my mother always told me not to wish my life away." After attending her 45th reunion, Doob vowed that she would never attend another: "All my friends were so old. I don't look in the mirror much, and I work around so many young people that I, too, usually feel very young...
Frederick Freyer never misses a cue as the piano player at the Kit Kat Club. His presence on stage during the more serious scenes back at the boardinghouse is bewildering, however, especially since he also doubles as the insidious Ernst Ludwig, a Nazi goon, and often exits stage left as the pianist, only to enter immediately stage right, as Ludwig...
Fernand Leger standardizes the human forms with assembly-line monotony. The people of his "Multicolored Acrobats" do not show the exposed cranks and gears of Ernst's animal. Rather, the smooth, curved limbs and torsos have all the sleek, internalized mechanization of an IBM Selectric...