Word: marius
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...which I am generally not fond. I copied an "original" limerick about a camel straight out of a children's poetry book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline 15 years later. (The plagiarist died soon afterwards. Coincidence? Perhaps...
...selection as ambassador changed almost overnight the climate of Japan and U.S. relations," said Marius Jansen, a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University...
...Shakespeare, for that matter. McCullough, who wrote The Thorn Birds, is not awed, and her narration marches sturdily through a period of fascinating turmoil in the last years of the Republic. Terrifying German barbarians have wiped out most of Rome's legions. The Senate dithers; Gaius Marius, a wealthy military man of low birth, has the energy but not the bloodline to save the situation. The author is interested in everything: how the city's sewers worked, how marriages were arranged, and how the horsehair plumes in a soldier's helmet could be detached for storage. She has drawn maps...
Moses said that he and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will lead this year's meetings, replacing Richard Marius, the director of the Expository Writing Program...
...committee, headed by Expository Writing Director Richard Marius, selected the speakers after a two evening competition that began on April 27, in which each candidate delivered an original five-minute address...