Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Ambassador to Lisbon in 1561, Diplomat Jean Nicot failed in his mission to marry off Queen Catherine de Medici's daughter to the King of Portugal. But Nicot won royal favor all the same by picking up in Lisbon an American weed whose most important ingredient today bears his name: nicotine. Ground into snuff, the tobacco successfully cured Queen Catherine of incessant headaches -it made her sneeze hard enough to clear out her sinuses...
...tentative and somewhat tongue-in-cheek hypothesis I would maintain that the Harvard Office of Admissions practices unconscious discrimination against obese applicants," Jean Mayer, associate professor of Nutrition, remarked yesterday...
Mary, Mary. With her criticisms confined to her witticisms, Jean Kerr (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) neatly jabs mankind and womankind with a smooth and engagingly witty comedy about the inconveniences of marriage and divorce...
...double bill with Samuel Beckett's lucid monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; Hedda Gabler, another excellent production in the Fourth Street Theater's Ibsen series; In the Jungle of Cities, a mystifying but thoroughly stimulating early play by Bertolt Brecht; The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's superb argument that the world is a mammoth cat house...
TWENTIETH CENTURY CHAMBER AND VOCAL MUSIC. The Adams House Music Society will sponsor a concert of works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Ives, Ruggles and Varese. The performers: Dorothy Crawford, soprano; Bentley Layton '63, baritone; Cynthia Carpenter, flute; Jean Louis Bourgeois '63, clarinet; Gregory Biss '64, piano; and Bruce Archibald, piano. Junior Common Room; 4:30 P.M. Free, and open to the public...