Word: pedanticism
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, 63, Deputy Premier Minister of Foreign Affairs, who will run the cold war. Born in the European Urals, son of a store clerk, high school educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1906. Met Stalin in 1912 when both edited an illegal sheet called Pravda, thereafter was Stalin'...
Although the Archives Room in Widener V is the University's official Hall of Records, it doubles as a four-walled scrap book of Harvard's three centuries. Archivist Clifford K. Shipton '26 stores his collection of momentos on the same shelves as the most revered official documents. Next to...
In a new long-playing release by Cambridge Records (CRC 101) he leads the Harvard Glee club in seven pieces of fifteenth and sixteenth century church music. Once again he attempts to reproduce the original performance practices. Instead of the modern ideal of polished clarity, he stresses the vague outlines...
Last fortnight he was in Innsbruck, Austria, lecturing to students on writing. A few days later he was in Munich, followed by a train of young people. A few days after that, he was in Switzerland. Wherever he went, he talked-in English, French or German-bouncing in & out of...
Like Joan of Arc and Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe's acting is partly swallowed in the lavish scenery. But the script hurts it even more. Hollywood scriptwriters cannot seem to shake the notion that knights and their ladies were intellectuals, whose every conversation sparkled with neat phrases, like a Stevenson campaign...