Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer, with a Warhol silk screen of Mao in the living room, rather than a newspaper magnate--and their newly-converted revolutionary daughter, whose rhetoric makes little sense and at best serves to separate her from her wealthy background, the FBI and a steamy, dull, white-washed country in Latin America that undergoes one internecine revolution after another among the one controlling family that owns all the land. But the superficial aspects of the plot are, as in any good novel, mostly secondary. A Book of Common Prayer, like other Didion works, is concerned with much more than surface appearances...
...judges were Owen C. Thomas, an Episcopal priest at the Divinity School, Paul C. Reardon '32, a former Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, and Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus. As stipulated in the original grant for the contest, the judges represented the cloth, the bar and education...
Worthy was born in Boston in the 1920s, the son of a doctor. During Worthy's formative years, his parents actively participated in the NAACP's struggle against segregation. A product of an intellectual family environment. Worthy was admitted to Boston Latin ("very rigid discipline but I learned a great deal") before matriculating at Bates College in Maine ("I considered Harvard, but wanted a small school away from home...
Entry fees from the tournament, organized by two House residents, will be donated to Boston Latin High, Puopolo's high school, which established the scholarship last fall...
...turns out that Mary was quite a prodigious writer herself, having taken pen to paper at every emotional juncture in her life. Various manuscripts of hers, that have immortalized women written in Latin, English, and French, were recently set to music by Priscilla Chapman '67 who will conduct the work as her own group, the Radcliffe Choral Society, performs them this Sunday night at St. Paul's. Subjects and styles range from an adolescent poem she wrote at 17 on the death of her first husband, to the passionate French sonnets that refute allegations that she killed another husband when...