Word: gant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about Harvard that anyone has been able to dig up is a pamphlet called "New England's First Fruits," apparently designed to entice people into emigrating here. It says the University was founded "to advance learning and perpeutate it to posterity." Years laters Tomas Wolfe's fictional hero, Eugene Gant, came here and started reading books like crazy because "he simply wanted to know about everything on earth; he wanted to devour the earth and it drove him mad when he saw he could not do this." If there was anywhere you'd expect a modern Dr. Faustus to turn...
Nixon now has five regular staff aides. They include former Marine Colonel Jack Brennan, his military aide as President; Private Secretary Nora Vandersommen, who was a White House secretary; Office Secretaries Loie Gant and Jo Anne Miller; and former Marine Sergeant Carl F. Howell, an assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange...
...easy correspondence between stage and life was never better illustrated than in this failed Hungarian playwright who dreamed of moving characters around on an international stage. Pushed by adoring and wealthy parents, he first affected the manner of an élégant, contributing feuilletons to the European press and plays to the Viennese public. Vienna circa 1890 was his home, at a time when that capital seemed the confluence of all that was worldly and intoxicating. It was also, according to Elon, a Versuchsstation des Weltuntergänges (proving ground of world destruction...
...cent off (James Bond in Thunderball for 30 cents); a poster of Paul Newman in a T-shirt for a dollar or Steve McQueen in a sport coat for 50 cents; suits and sport coats (without Steve McQueen), $12-20 off: a Greek electric typewriter, down $25 to $100; Gant shirts, 40 per cent off. (A. Cabaly Limited on Brattle Street has Gant shirts for 20 per cent...