Word: georgians
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Casbah Fellow. A native Georgian, Scholar Currie broke all academic records at Mercer University Law School ('35), was the OPA lawyer who led the crackdown on black-market lumber chiselers during World War II. He has taught at the universities of Georgia, Chicago, California and Pittsburgh, where he was law dean in 1952. He has edited such journals as Law and Contemporary Problems, been a fellow at California's famed Casbah (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences). While delighting law professors with doggerel mockeries of celebrated lawsuits, Currie has built his serious reputation on profound studies...
...also a gourmet and oenological expert who belongs to Le Tastevin, an exclusive society devoted to fine wines, and he employs a French chef who came to him from Lord Astor. He and his wife Pamela-their three children are grown-live in a 20-room, antique-filled Georgian mansion whose 300 acres are tended by 14 gardeners and protected, naturally, by Du Pont fungicide...
...oldest public high school in Michigan, Central was founded in 1858 as an academic pipeline to the University of Michigan. Its plant is a majestic Georgian building on an 11-acre plot, and before World War II Dime Store Millionaire S. S. Kresge and the Dodge automotive clan had mansions in the vicinity. As late as 1954, Central seniors led the city by walking off with 42 college scholarships...
...encouraged to think otherwise by a second piece of asinine twaddle, again much closer to Lampy's norm. Two undergraduates find that Harvard's phantom colored paneler has murdered some Georgian architects. It's tough to imagine anyone cracking a smile over this insipid little soporific, except possibly Dean Sert...
...Santa Fe, N. Mex. The prescribed curriculum at both campuses is 130 "basic books" of Western thought; each student body is restricted to 300; the faculty is interchangeable under a single president, Richard D. Weigle. Only the architecture is different: something called "modified territorial" in Santa Fe and Georgian colonial in Annapolis...