Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VICTOR HUGO...
...wrote a poem that won the notice of the Academic Française. At the age of 83 he died, shortly after composing his last Alexandrine. During the decades between he came to think of himself as Olympic-an apt sobriquet, for Victor Hugo lived life with the vigor and ego of a Greek god. Once, when Hugo was about 80, his teen-age grandson found the old man making love to a young laundress. "Look," said Hugo proudly, "that is what they call genius...
...Hugo spent a good deal of his genius in the prone position: he fathered a sizable family, kept an adoring mistress for half a century, and found time for countless other sexual adventures. Yet he had enough spare energy to become the 19th century's grand seigneur of French literature, hammering out poems, plays, novels and essays as other men might manufacture horseshoes...
...JUDGE VALUES: GUIDO CALABRESI, 44, of Yale. Studied at Yale, Oxford (Rhodes scholar), Yale Law. Clerked for Justice Hugo L. Black. Married; three children...
Individually, Murphy had 23 saves on the afternoon while the Big Green's Hugo had a hat trick...