Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Countess Granville, sister of Queen Elizabeth, who cooed that her grandnephew was "golden-haired, with a most beautiful complexion . . . couldn't be more angelic looking," and had "amazingly delicate features for so young a baby...
...philosopher would say: let the Board of Overseers provide a golden cage. But the sage would ask: how are the police going to catch it? Kurt Strasser, GSAS...
...more stealing in future? Most of the boys said vaguely that they needed someone they could "depend on." Said resourceful Chick: "A friend of mine is in the Golden Gloves, that's a boxing club, and he fought four rounds and won a beautiful $150 Bulova watch ... If he can do it, I can do it. So I'm gonna enlist in the Golden Gloves, and I'm gonna fight...
Adams graduated from Harvard in 1858, and returned to the Yard as a professor in 1870. Though he did not know it, and would probably have been scandalized to hear it, he was teaching in what has since come to be regarded as the beginning of Harvard's golden age. Last week, present-day readers could catch a little of the shine of that era through a new book by onetime Harvard Lecturer Rollo Walter Brown (Harvard Yard in the Golden...
...Undisciplinables. It was certainly the golden age of Harvard philosophers-and the greatest of them all was William James. He had wandered from art to medicine, to psychology ("The first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave"), and then finally to philosophy. He was forever reading the books of unknown authors, or listening to the lectures of his juniors, lest he overlook some undiscovered genius. He detested "educated cleverness in the service of popular idols and vulgar ends." As a teacher, he preferred thinkers of another sort: "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...