Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The story of Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave who crusaded publicly against slavery and prejudice before, during and after the Civil...
Some reasons for their enthusiasm are argued in the latest issue of Continuum, a lively, intellectual quarterly sponsored by Saint Xavier College in Chicago. The 244-page issue is devoted to analyses of Lonergan's work, including articles by English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, historian of philosophy, and by two of the nation's most theologically astute Catholic laymen: Continuum's Editor Justus George Lawler and Michael Novak of Harvard. Lonergan contributed a typically abstruse essay on "cognitional structure...
...Habsburgs still thought of him as the best defender of their particular brand of earth. At 71, senile and just two years short of death, he was dispatched to the War of Polish Succession. Outnumbered 5 to 1 by the forces of France, he failed miserably. Years later, Frederick the Great, remembering his days of apprenticeship, mourned the fate of both Eugen and Marlborough. "What a humbling reflection for our vanity," he wrote. "The greatest geniuses end up as imbeciles. Poor humanity, boast of your glory if you dare...
...others: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus, France's Marshal Turenne and Frederick the Great...
...first-nighters to their feet in Moscow's Operetta Theater. "A great success," trumpeted Tass. But not everybody could have danced all night. "The Soviets did not go through proper channels," groused CBS, which bought the foreign rights to My Fair Lady from Authors Alan Lerner, 46, and Frederick Loewe, 60, in 1960. The Russians, of course, paid no one a ruble. But Producer Herman Levin had a thought: "Maybe if I went to Moscow and complained, they'd give me a free pass...