Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serge Elisseeff, Professor of Far Eastern Languages, and Michael Karpovich, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will retire at the end of this academic year...
...Holy See was at Tanyin. A pope and female cardinals. Prophecy by planchette. Saint Victor Hugo. Christ and Buddha looking down from the roof of the cathedral on a Walt Disney fantasia of the East, dragons and snakes in Technicolor...
...twilight of the famed Roosevelt court and the rising sun of an Eisenhower court. In 1937 F.D.R. tried and failed to get Congress to raise the number of Justices from nine to 15. But he got the New Deal sympathy he wanted within three years by naming Liberal Democrats Hugo Black, Reed, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas to succeed Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis-key figures on the court that New Dealers scornfully called "The Nine Old Men." Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John Marshall Harlan, Democrat William J. Brennan...
...Cramped Ground. In Manhattan, after he arrived by ship from Rotterdam, Motorbike Tourist Hugo De Wys scouted the area, regretfully told well-wishers he would have to leave immediately because there was no place to pitch his tent...
OLYMPIC: THE LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO, by Andre Maurois. One of the year's very best biographies: a just and urbane study of the virile French poet who was always lustily at home in life, in and out of exile...