Word: limerick
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...next day, the professors--Sidney Verba '53, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes and Patricia Limerick--told four members of the constitution committee during a breakfast meeting that because of a scheduling problem, the proposal most likely could not be reviewed by the entire Faculty until January. Even if the Faculty approved the document, it would be too late to include the $10 surcharge necessary to fund the council on students' term bills in time for the spring semester...
Literacy once meant the ability to read and write, and perhaps acquire familiarity with, say, Paradise Lost. Today, children who cannot even decipher a limerick are becoming what is known as "computer literate." Just as Gutenberg's press stimulated literacy in the 15th century, the emergence of the low-cost personal computer of the 1980s is making the knowledge of what computers can do an essential educational discipline...
...which will select the 1981-82 American Nieman Fellows in journalism. The members of the committee, chaired by James C. Thomson, Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, are: Nathan Glazer professor of Education and Sociology: David Kraslow, publisher of the Miami News and a 1962 Nieman fellow: Patricia Nelson Limerick, assistant professor of History: Frieda W. Morris, midwest bureau chief of NBC News; Garry Orren '68, a polling expert and associate professor of Public Policy: George Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor and William Woestendiek, executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star...
Once Church gets going on a topic, a mere cover story cannot always contain his talent and energy, so he indulges a longtime passion for satire and verse. His Man of the Year story in January produced an Ayatullah Khomeini limerick ("too indecorous to quote," he says), and this month's Reagan cover story yielded a parody of an all-purpose campaign-trail press conference: "Q. Senator, what do you think of the new poll that shows you an overwhelming victor in North Dakota? A. I wish I could believe it, but it's wrong...
...University of London: "Nothing of this quality and importance has been found in Ireland in this century." Although it will take a year to restore the chalice, which was caked with a greenish mold, experts are already comparing it to the famed Ardagh chalice, discovered in 1868 in County Limerick and often described as the most beautiful in the world...