Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Godkin Lectures, established in 1903, honor the memory of Edwin L. Godkin, British-American journalist of the 19th century, who founded "The Nation" and edited the New York Evening Post. Recent Godkin Lecturers have been Hugh Gaitskill, John Lord O'Brian, Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy and U.S. Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont...
...Margarita, freshman football coach since 1951, resigned yesterday to accept the post of backfield coach under Boston University's new head coach, Steve Sinko. The move came as no great surprise, since it had been remored in the Boston press for the past few weeks...
...appointment culminated a long search for a replacement for Jordan, a search that sent officials of the Department of Athletics across the country. Ninety-five men applied for or were recommended for the post, and 26 of them were interviewed. Yovicsin was recommended for the job by former Crimson coach Dick Harlow, who retired...
...confusion centers in the analyst (David Niven), the figure whose bubble reputation the satiric point is apparently intended to prick. But the bubble is never blown; from the first scene, Niven is represented as little more than a passive scratching-post for a pack of pampered cats. But suddenly, in the last scenes, he turns into the father image-sober, sound, sententious, and yet as modern as a cubist grandfather's clock. In the meantime, the moviegoer has weltered through a series of vaguely amusing scenes that go nowhere almost as fast as the well-known labyrinth dream...
...arrived in Austria with nothing except "a little vocabulary" of amorous German words which he had picked up in the arms of an innkeeper's wife at the border. Da Ponte boldly demanded the post of Poet to the Theaters. Asked by the Emperor how many plays he had written, Da Ponte for once gave an honest reply: "None, Sire." The Emperor was impressed. "Good, good! Then we shall have a virgin muse," he said...