Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran singles, Alwin Pappenheimer, professor of Biology and former Master of Dunster House, at the age of 68 rowed in his tenth Head, placing a respectable 28th...
Which is why Harvard's victory was so terribly depressing for the Dartmouths. The fact that it means the Big Green will not win the Ivy title is secondary to the fact that after spending two years gathering enough credits for their M.E.O. (Master of Excessive Obnoxiousness) degrees, the Dartmouths forgot the most important requirement. They forgot the possibility of losing...
...paying off. In the old days, the advantage of scarcity enhanced the value of the degree. Now one out of every two labor-market entrants has some post-secondary school training. By the end of this academic year, about 1.3 million people will receive bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees-nearly double the annual level of ten years ago. During the same period, however, the number of professional, technical and managerial jobs in the U.S. has barely grown more than a third. How much longer graduating classes can trek into unemployment offices without a sense...
Johnson is master of the arresting detail, the vivid personality sketch. In an evocative little essay on St. Ambrose, the Roman magistrate who became Bishop of Milan in 373, he pauses to note Augustine's surprise when he found that Ambrose could read silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo...
...Choreographer George Balanchine, 72, after arriving in Paris for the first visit in eleven years by his New York City Ballet company. Accompanied by prodigal Ballerina Suzanne Farrell, 31, who had rejoined the Balanchine troupe after a 4½-year stint with the Bejart ballet in Brussels, the dance master made a trip to the jewelry shop of Van Cleef & Arpels. The reason: Balanchine's dazzling ballet Jewels, which had its French premiere last week, had been inspired 15 years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch. Dancer Farrell happily modeled some...