Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superiors explain that it was easier to find a new theater critic (second-string Times film reviewer Richard Eder) than to replace Oxford-schooled Balletomane Barnes as dance expert, the job for which he was imported from London in 1965. There were other possible reasons: many in Manhattan's theater community resented Barnes' immense power, and some disliked his tendency to review plays as works of literature rather than live performances. Barnes, 49, has also starred in local gossip columns concerning some marital problems, and his bosses at the Times were thought to be not amused, a prudishness...
...scope of Darwin's literary erudition, if not his uncanny ability to always fit the quote to the situation at hand. It is a difficult task indeed to find a paragraph in Mostly Golf free of a literary snippet. Darwin was as at home writing an introduction to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as he was smashing a niblick off the Kentish heath...
...JUDGE VALUES: GUIDO CALABRESI, 44, of Yale. Studied at Yale, Oxford (Rhodes scholar), Yale Law. Clerked for Justice Hugo L. Black. Married; three children...
Died. John Dickson Carr, 70, dapper, scholarly author of more than 100 mystery novels; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C. Under his own name and two pseudonyms (Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson), he created two super sleuths: an Oxford don named Gideon Fell and an engaging buffoon, Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr's specialties were historical mysteries and locked-room murders, involving a corpse found alone in a room sealed from the inside. Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems...
...museum like John Rosenfield and Konrad Oberhuber teach Harvard courses, and the museum hosts a myriad of seminars, employing the extensive reserves of material in its collections. The Fogg's use as an instructional facility is "on a par with Fitzwilliam at Cambridge (England), the Ashmolean at Oxford, and Yale and Princeton's museums," Rosenfield, Curator of Oriental Art, said last week. But he added that the Fogg uses its collection "far more intensively" in teaching. "We increase the link insofar as is commensurate with preserving the collection," Rosenfield said...