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...lived the rest of her days on the Continent, never bothered to speak anything except English. Her favorite word was "superb," which she applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap. She detested "Bohemianism, quaintness, affectation, whimsy, and-above all-effeteness." In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point...
...hundred enthralled but hard-pressed couples, an original musical comedy, and the enthroning of a statuesque, Grecian-type beauty highlighted the Class of 1950's Jubilee Weekend, which banged to a climax under Sam Donchue's baton in the Union Saturday night, and ended with a whimper as ice-packs were applied yesterday morning...
...such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come...
Visitors to the darkened halls of the Baltimore Museum of Art last week found them aglimmer with the forms that Grecian goldsmiths once made. Assembled by Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery, the museum show was the biggest and best exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine art ever seen in the U.S. A fair share of all the Byzantine art left in the world was on display...
Familiarity with the Grecian-style circular pool of Columbia proved an insufficient advantage for the Lion swimmers. The leadoff win by the Crimson's medley team of Dave Smith, Chuck Hoelzer, and Steve Wise was quickly followed by Jerry Gorman and Norm Watkins copping first and second in the 220-yard freestyle...