Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious case faced the four members of the King's College matriculation board of Britain's University of Durham. The applicant before them had quit school at twelve-and he was now all of 68. Nonetheless, he wanted desperately to enter the university as an ordinary undergraduate. Had he been anyone less persuasive than ruddy-faced John McNair, the board might not even have bothered to consider...
...Independent Labor Party. Retirement, he soon found, turned out to be a bore-"a little too much smoking, a little too much drinking, a gradual loss of interest in world affairs and, finally, senility at the end." After eight months of it, Bachelor McNair went before the King's College board in the fall of 1955. He discussed in both English and French his lifetime of wide reading, soon convinced the members that there was no real reason why he should not be admitted. By last week, Britain's oldest undergraduate was becoming a campus legend...
...Your Age. At first, no one knew exactly how to treat him. When he shyly sat down in the men's bar of the King's College student union, it took all his eloquence to persuade the union president that he did indeed have a right to be in a place reserved "for students only." Once a porter tried to bar him from an examination, gruffly told him to act his age when McNair protested that he was an undergraduate. His classmates opened and closed doors for him, insisted on calling him "sir." His professors felt they might...
...deferential in class, but his professors find him an invaluable stimulus. In a sense, he has become the kindly uncle of the whole university, feeding on the youthfulness about him while giving in return the benefit of his 70 years of experience. "He likes young people," says King's Rector Charles Bosanquet, "and has sympathy for them. But he is a wise old man who has a true sense of what are the real values of life. Without appearing to preach, he does tend to make students understand that there are some things it is silly...
After repeating this procedure with Holbein's King Henry VIII, Cranach's Lucretia and a Modigliani portrait, Trevor-Roper went on to examine other artists affected by eye diseases. Cézanne's myopia may be the reason, he said, for Cézanne's blur. Monet suffered from cataract, which caused his greens to become more yellow, his blues more purple. Constable may not have realized how brown his trees appeared to normal vision because he was colorblind. "A fuzziness or what art historians would call "breadth,' " he went on, is the weakness...