Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anonymous symbols (the Hungarian Freedom Fighter and Korea's G.I. Joe). There have been Presidents (every President since F.D.R., who himself set a record as Man of the Year three times), allies (Churchill, Adenauer, De Gaulle), enemies (Hitler), villains (Stalin). There have been women too (Wallis Simpson, Queen Elizabeth). But there has never, until this year, been a Negro...
...Midst laurels stood: Archibald MacLeish, 71, named Amherst's poet in residence to succeed the late Robert Frost; Playwright-Producer Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 63, installed in the honorary post of chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, succeeding Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest...
Lambuth despised inert verbs: "To be is the weakest of all verbs because it merely joins two ideas together with a colorless glue." He liked verbs that are "busy doing or making something." Not When Elizabeth was queen, but When Elizabeth reigned. He sought concrete words standing for "material things which may be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or heard." No Lambuth student could write that a man indulged in an act of generosity; he wrote that a man gave a dollar to a tramp. Abstract: He gave vehement and conclusive expression to his anger. Concrete: His fist landed squarely...
Genetic Lottery. Classical hemophilia, known since ancient times, is caused by a severe shortage of clotting Factor VIII. This disease, which afflicted a dozen descendants of Queen Victoria, results from a defect in a recessive gene carried on the x (female) chromosome. If a hemophilic man marries a normal woman, all their sons are normal but all their daughters are carriers. If a carrier woman marries a normal man (see diagram), each son has a fifty-fifty chance of being a victim and each daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier. No one can predict whether...
Born. To Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 25, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie, 25, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika: their first child, a daughter; in Madrid...