Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frederick the Second-Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Germans, King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious lecher, successful Crusader, political innovator-is a blazing figure in a period in history (the first half of the 13th century) that the casual student too often slides by. The attention is caught briefly, perhaps, by Frederick's nickname, Stupor Mundi (wonder of the world), and by accounts that his scientific curiosity led him to experiment with live servants. But ahead, amplified by history's hindsound, are the first horn calls of the Renaissance. The temptation is to leave...
...Frederick belonged to the Renaissance, and he lived the life of a Renaissance prince. If he had been born in that period, he might have dominated it, but in the 13th century individual ambition was kept in check by a strong church. Novelist Deiss, a rehabilitated public-relations man turned scholar, offers in this impressive biographical novel a solid, scrupulous recreation of Frederick's lifelong struggle to surmount his times...
...program is intended to tap creative writing on a college-wide basis, Henry James, Jr., Lamont librarian, said yesterday. Participants will include many well-known student writers, such as play-wrights David Cole '62, Thomas Babe '63, and Frederick H. Gardner '63, and poets Robert Dawson '64, and Sidney Goldfarb...
During the first three scenes, Genet doesn't repeat himself enough to spoil his gamy jokes. If you aren't too squeamish, you will laugh when the Executioner (Frederick Q. Rice) reaches under the Whore-thief's dress and claims to have found a flashlight, bearskins and several pairs of socks in her "notorious Kangaroo pocket." If that kind of thing bothers you, stay home. There's plenty of it all the way through...
Among previous Dunham lecturers were Nobel laureates William Einthoven, who developed the electrocardiogram, and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who discovered the growth-stimulating vitamins. Of the 38 lecturers, 13 have come from England; seven from Germany; three each from France, South America and United States; two from Sweden; and one each from Holland, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Australia, Canada, and Austria...