Word: patricianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cassius is no bum, he is no pugilistic patrician, either. After his narrow first-round recovery he was shaken again in rounds four and seven. Clay's offense was wild and ineffective on the inside and even the few solid punches that Jones couldn't deflect did little damage to the small Harlem heavyweight. Only in round three did Clay connect with a series of sharp jabs and combinations...
...Coast educators, the answer is simple. In a state long dominated by huge public colleges. Occidental has parlayed smallness. smart leadership and intellectual freedom into a warm, friendly spirit, first-rate teaching, and a taste for the experimental. Once considered to be a preserve for academically delicate youth from patrician Pasadena, Oxy has in fact long been especially strong in history, diplomacy and world affairs. It installed the first nuclear reactor (in 1958) for undergraduate teaching in Southern California, has such high pre-med standards that graduates are virtually assured of acceptance in medical schools of their choice...
...dynasty in history. Osbert. who earlier dealt exhaustively with all his relatives in his autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!, has now found that its five stout volumes were not enough. Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa...
...gives it full possession. By order of the mayor, this week is "Rembrandt for Denver Week." The painting was done around 1632, one year after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. He took lodgings with a gentleman named Hendrick van Uylenburgh, whose orphaned young cousin Saskia charmed him. Saskia was of patrician background (her father had been a burgomaster), but the miller's son from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role of a mythological heroine. As in many of his early works, Rembrandt used a small...
...Practically Died." C.C. was forever on the road with his shoe line, and Edwina Williams lived with her father, a patrician Episcopal preacher who restlessly changed parishes about every two years. Thomas Lanier Williams was born in 1911 in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. He and his older sister Rose absorbed their mother's lofty sense of status as the daughter of a clergyman in Delta country. Tom loved to tag along after the Rev. Mr. Dakin on parish calls and listen to the conversations. "Tom always was a little pitcher with big ears...