Word: pointedness
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In 1959, Elizabeth H. Carleton ’59 would become the last woman ever to be crowned “Miss Radcliffe.” That year, the annual beauty contest—judged by Harvard professors who would watch the girls read aloud a provided passage?...
Lady Marina A.S. Vaizey ’59 did not plan on becoming an art critic—after all when she went to Radcliffe College, she only took one class on art and graduated a Medieval History and Literature concentrator. She kind of fell into the profession. ?...
Yes, Her Majesty hovered over the proceedings, an unseen metajudge. The winner, as the show's relentlessly cheery hosts Ant and Dec continually pointed out, would not only trouser the $160,000 award but also - and here the duo lowered their voices in awe - perform for the Queen at the...
• On Feb. 3, 2003, onetime B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was shot to death in Spector's 33-room estate, which he dubbed "the Castle." The pair had met for the first time earlier that night at L.A.'s House of Blues, where she had been working. Over the...
Cheney, Dick •benightedness of (it means a state of moral or intellectual darkness or unenlightenment) is pointed out by former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger