Word: loner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solving Africa's problems. But if anyone had in fact delivered such an introduction in Washington last week, it would have applied with equal accuracy to a non-hirsute, non-Harvard winner named Jacob Koppel Javits, 62, senior Senator from New York, lifelong Republican and, like Bobby Kennedy, a loner athirst for bigger things...
...wished my studies of nature to indicate very carefully, in every part, the exact time of day and circumstance of light." It was the same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also introduced mythological subject matter into naturalistic settings. La Farge, for instance, thought nothing of depicting The Halt of the Wise Men in 1878 with a recognizable Newport, R.I., background...
...elected to the presidency of the largely Protestant Society of Biblical Literature, and he is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the first Catholic to hold this post. Within his own church, however, McKenzie is something of a maverick. Other Jesuits consider him a loner, and he now prefers to seek teaching assignments outside his society's institutions. Next fall, after summer teaching at the United Presbyterians' San Francisco Theological Seminary, he takes up residency at Notre Dame, which is run by the Congregation of Holy Cross...
...drilling-equipment fortune, he bought his way into the movie industry, produced Hell's Angels and Scarface, discovered Jean Harlow, personally designed the brassiere that made Jane Russell famous. He was a friend to Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn. Then he steadily became more of a loner. He secretly married green-eyed Actress Jean Peters in 1957. Now they live in a French Regency chateau in Bel Air, surrounded by high walls, bodyguards and rumors...
...include the last of the doctors, Kildare and Casey; both The Addams Family and its imitator, The Munsters; and three combat comedies, Mr. Roberts, McHale's Navy and The Wackiest Ship in the Army. Four westerns are going thataway: Branded, Shenandoah, The Legend of Jesse James and The Loner. Peyton Place will run two installments a week instead of three, and its Southern version, Long Hot Summer, will be cut off altogether...