Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...History Department, his sharp eye for graduate students and his awesome reputation among history departments around the world made him invaluable. For students, his informal yet dignified manner, his understated sense of humor, and his kindness exemplified Harvard at its best. Though a man of style and wit, Professor Owen was not flamboyant; he left Winthrop House with a quiet sense of pride, and he took the mild, subdued course in departmental affairs...
...course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith to the learning public...
...number of political commentators discount the polls, saying that Morse will win when the primary is held in May. They say he has been in the public eye for over 35 years and is very well known across the state. he is expected to have a well-financed campaign with money coming in from doves all over the country as well as from long standing Oregon supporters. His opponents will attack this outside influence in an Oregon election. Duncan, however, will have the same financial difficulties that...
...could afford to miss that? And just to make sure that no one did, the ABC cameras zeroed in for so many closeups that it seemed as though the lenses were affixed to the actors' noses. But that was all right, for the furrowed brow and blazing eye said a lot. Filmed in London, the adaptation of John Osborne's play about Martin Luther's supposed psychological dilemmas glinted with bright character roles for which the British are renowned. In Robert Shaw, the play had the actor to give it go power. He gasped, crumpled and split...
...novelist invented a character like Lord Byron, he would be set down as an opportunistic fictioneer with an eye on the bestseller list. Byron, after all, was almost too much. He was a good if not great poet; he was handsome; he could swim the Hellespont, even with a game leg; he had affairs with men as well as women including, some believe, his half sister. He was also a political rebel. When he died at 34 in Missolonghi, Greece, he was planning and financing a revolt against the Turkish oppressors...