Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to circulate a petition was made at a meeting on April 21 called by Bonder and Evelyn K. Pye '72 for all interested freshmen. Bonder and Miss Pye had discussed the problem of concentrating in a specific field two days before in a New College seminar...
Powell's world is special, as special as Proust's. In Evelyn Waugh's much-quoted observation, Powell has even been rated Proust's equal-with the qualification that he is much funnier. All the best jokes are family jokes, and the British Establishment is one of the closest of all cultural families. One no more needs to be a member of it to relish Anthony Powell than one needs to be a French homosexual with aristocratic friends to enjoy Proust. Like the peculiar British fondness for cold toast, though, a taste for Powell...
...shadow of its wealthier cousins, the Paris Rothschilds, and of more imaginative British merchant bankers. Now the firm is catching up, as Rothschilds always seem to do. Edmund de Rothschild, 52, remains the senior partner, but the man who is taking an increasingly vocal role is his first cousin, Evelyn de Rothschild, 37. Unlike Edmund, who is active in a largely ceremonial way, Evelyn is pursuing a more aggressive family stewardship. "We aren't just a myth," he insists...
...Evelyn argued that the British House of Rothschild should not necessarily become a home, stipulating that "no Rothschild can come into the bank who does not reach the required standards." The firm has both strengthened its ties with the French relatives and become more open to Christians and other outsiders. Last January, Evelyn took a partnership in the Paris bank and welcomed its head, Baron Guy de Rothschild (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963), to a reciprocal partnership at N. M. Rothschild. At the same time, the bank also added three non-Rothschild partners, putting the family in a minority...
...EVELYN KONRAD Manhattan...