Word: julians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dick Carey, playing scrub half, was successful in getting the ball back; but unfortunate fumbles often prevented the Crimson from scoring. Neither John Van Schalwyk, Ian Paisley-Tyler, nor Keith Julian was able to break loose...
Most Negroes, says Negro Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, "felt that swing had to be there for the jazz to be valid. They weren't much interested in the new West Coast music. They were convinced that Brubeck's music was not jazz." Result: few Negroes were involved in West Coast jazz. As its popularity increased, so did the resentment of Negro jazz leaders, who were getting fewer and fewer dates. "The irony of the thing is," says Stan Kenton. "that this group of musicians, who never had any problems before, all of a sudden were at odds...
...chosen this time belongs to Mary Katherine ("Merricat") Blackwood-actual age 18, mental age a precocious twelve. "I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet," she reflects, "and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom." She is a gentle child who promises herself to be kinder to her Uncle Julian. She is already kind enough to Constance and to her enigmatic cat Jonas. But for some reason she is never allowed to touch knives...
...Humanist societies are generally denied the recognition that governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...
Teilhard hoped to get his ideas published but, as a good Jesuit, obeyed when Rome said no. Nevertheless, manuscript copies of his works filtered into scholarly French circles. To the dismay of the Vatican, an international committee of intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs...