Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outstanding Crimson sophomore, Rick Sterne, will probably face Tom Gilbert in the third match. Gilbert, a senior who has improved rapidly in the past year, shell-shocked Harvard's Craig Stapleton last year for a quick 3-0 victory. Nevertheless, former collegiate freshman champ Sterne looms as Harvard's most likely winner...
Finally Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born Cambridge don, and such Oxonians as J. L. Austin and Gilbert Ryle decided independently that philosophy was concerned not so much with meaning as with use, and should seek to establish the rules of the various "language games" that men played with ordinary words, describing when a word was used legitimately, and when it was not. About all the various analytic schools had in common was the beliefs that philosophy has nothing to say about the world and that clarity and straight thinking will dissolve most of the classical metaphysical problems...
...lovely when Greta Garbo resurrected her onscreen, prowling around in trousers with John Gilbert in 1933's Queen Christina. Still, the myth persisted that besides being wanton and mannish, Sweden's baroque queen was plain ugly. A catty tale. Archaeologists opened the marble tomb in the Vatican grotto where she was buried in 1689, discovered the silver death mask of a handsome woman who might have played the Garbo part herself...
Despite wealth, fame, and a success that now is taken for granted Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players are still able to surprise their audience...
According to David A. Gilbert, president of the Daily Herald, the spoolers had attempted an "April Fool's edition December" which subsequently backward...