Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attendance was Hugh Flick '68, instructor in Folklore and Mythology. He related the concerns of the New Age group to his scholarly interests, saying, "The basis of a lot of what we call mythology is that we need to be in harmony with ourselves and with our environment...
CHARIOTS OF FIRE Directed by Hugh Hudson Screenplay by Colin Welland...
SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO by A.J. Langguth; Simon & Schuster; 366 pages...
Ancients described the tiny, sweet-singing nightingale as Vox et praeterea nihil (voice and nothing else). For more than half a century that is how it has been, too, with Hector Hugh Munro, the marvelous miniaturist who wrote under the name of Saki. His voices, silly and silky and sometimes tinged with savagery, were familiar and extravagantly praised. One belonged to a popinjay character called Reginald, who discoursed in a series of semiprecious mots: "I hate posterity. It's so fond of having the last word." Another was Clovis Sangrail, a young man much given to the kind...
...coal revenues, will do just fine without the federal dollars. Boasts Governor Allen Olson: "We want to prove we can live without them." But in the Northeast and industrial Midwest, the new federalism is "cruel and unusual punishment," according to Roger Vaughan, economic aide to New York Governor Hugh Carey. These regions, says Vaughan, will bear an unfair burden of social service cutbacks because they spend more for the disadvantaged in the first place. Urban areas, which tend to have the highest concentration of poor and others dependent on federal programs, will probably be the biggest losers. A small delegation...