Word: gilberte
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...stout was downed in his honor at Davy Byrne's, the pub he celebrated. But in Paris, at the American Center for Students and Artists, 350 partisans of James Joyce got together to celebrate the 84th anniversary of his birth. After Author Mary McCarthy, Joyce Scholar Stuart Gilbert and the rest of the cult articulately wished him a happy birthday, the ghost of James lyrically garbled everything by reciting some of Ulysses from a tape recorder...
...Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
While Marr and Duer were giving Princeton a quick two-match bulge, undefeated Crimson sophomore Rick Sterne was taming Tom Gilbert's powerful backhand in the number three match...
...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...