Word: loree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow or other, he manages to survive without becoming unduly ruffled. Both Dean Bundy and William Bentinck-Smith '37, assistant to the President, have aided him greatly with their broad knowledge of Harvard lore and history. Old film clippings, accumulated over the past fifty years, have also proved of great value: they will actually make up about 50 percent of the completed movie...
...lecture to thousands of audiences-but none ever considered itself captive. Sizer not only became a leading authority on American art, he also grew into something of a legend. Last week, at 65, as he prepared to retire from teaching, he was already as much a part of Yale lore as John ("Daily Themes") Berdan, William Lyon Phelps and the crotchety Johnsonian, Chauncey Brewster Tinker...
...action, he manages to convey his problem effectively. His irritation with his master and his hesitation to act upon it seem more real than his exaggerated decisiveness with maps and binoculars. Yet if Rommel seems almost too fine a soldier, Hollywood can be forgiven this concession to folk lore in gratitude for portraying the man as well...
...letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox a jealous husband or mistress, how to brazen out an infidelity (lie about it). It also offers a whole dictionary of lovers' lore, from aphrodisiacs ("Others say pepper is good") to proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid's Metamorphoses (TIME, May 23, 1955), wears his scholarship as loosely as a toga, and occasionally carries colloquialism to the point...
...ancestors was Pope Clement IX (1667-69). His grandfather, Camillo Rospigliosi. was a captain of the Pope's personal bodyguard from 1878 till 1915. Title and ancestry are useful in covering the Vatican, but Correspondent Rospigliosi can also count on his vast knowledge of Vatican lore and the confidences of well-placed sources acquired over the years since he first started covering the Holy...