Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book collector, music lover, once served as moderator of the American Unitarian Association-stood him in good stead at St. Elizabeths, where he lives with his family. For 13 years he endured endless legal wrangling over his most celebrated patient, Poet Ezra Pound; but more important, he helped make St. Elizabeths one of the most enlightened mental hospitals...
...Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound up in 1927 as assistant professor in Georgetown's then tiny history department (now one of the nation's largest) and chairman in 1947. Though Kerekes is first a teacher ("Because I can that way make contact with youth"), he has stayed close to the Washington pulse, advised congressional committees on Hungary. In 1956 he founded Georgetown's Ethnic Institute, will continue as director in retirement, trying to preserve, on paper at least, the rich native cultures of all peoples in the world...
Njoroge's quest for his M.D. would make the arduous road of the average U.S. medical student look like roses all the way. Son of a Kikuyu Christian who ran a small general store, Njoroge wanted to go to a U.S. college. But Kenya bureaucrats refused him necessary papers, hoping to keep him within the empire for ideological safety. So Njoroge made it the long way around, via Pretoria (B.S. at the University of South Africa) and London, peddling cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study...
...other U.S. units, absorbed a rugged version of colloquial American. Later he joined a two-bit traveling circus, where he led a two-man band, painted spots on garter snakes to turn them into "American rattlesnakes," had the job of poking a senile lion in the rump to make him roar...
...founding fathers of the U.S. make a somewhat solemn gallery in the mind. Remembered mostly from portraits painted late in their hardworking, often harsh lives, they seem austere, wrinkled and careworn. Now a miniature portrait of one of the greatest of them, Thomas Jefferson, has come to light, showing him as he really appeared in the fateful summer...