Word: hume
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polonius, as Hume Cronyn sees him, is a buffoon, who turns most of his scenes with Hamlet into slapstick comedy. Cronyn wrings from the part all the humor that is there and a good deal, I think, that is not. He is Polonius from Hamlet's point of view, a "tedious old fool," without a trace of the skilled counselor who had been invaluable to Denmark...
Crackling Classrooms. What typifies Swarthmore is a passionate intellectual jousting that makes seminars crackle. When a professor recently remarked, "Rousseau doesn't make the distinctions Hume does," a typical coed fiercely whispered, "Damn right!" Although half the students are on intercollegiate athletic teams, Swarthmore is a school where varsity-lettermen refuse to wear varsity letters. An alumnus proudly recalls four years of debating with a philosophy professor on ontological proof, "with each of us reversing his position at least twice...
...Adrian Darby, 26, Home is surely where the heart is-even if Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, does pronounce her name Hume, as in fume. It started to get that way eight months ago, at a performance of Aïda, when he first met the British Prime Minister's second daughter, and now the young Oxford economics don plans to make his name hers. The wedding date is March 30 at her family's Scottish estate, The Hirsel, in a ceremony to be attended only by relatives...
...bomb, my army, my Europe and even, on occasion, mon Dieu." The other was a remark about the virus that has got the best of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. Said David Frost, British M.C. of That Was the Week That Was and a guest on the American show: "Hume is in bed with flu, or if you prefer, Home is in bed with...
...They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx eyes over every other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just 'medieval cathedrals'-name nine. Think of a few specific examples of 'contemporary decadence,' like Natalie Wood...