Word: sage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. This satire of suburbia has a serious mes sage: the commuter's jargon, with its self-analysis and narcissism, is not just a cultivated mannerism but a disease...
...books, the Arthurian epic is a profound and pious chronicle of his nation's founding, the glory of an age that never seemed Dark to White. From it came the Matter of Britain, the lesson of greatness, and White was its subtle sage. Bombay-born, the son of an Indian army officer, he was "a nostalgic Tory" who had little sympathy for Sir Grummore Grummurson, as he called Colonel Blimp's Arthurian ancestor. White did not lament the decline of empire so much as the withering of English virtues commended by 15th century Printer William Caxton: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse...
...charges, Georgiev remained in the service of the imperialists. Promptly at 9:30 a.m. on the first and third Friday of each month, he would switch on his radio and slip open his code book. All he really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while, Georgiev played Name That Tune like an expert. Then...
...NEIL WELLIVER, 34, who teaches architectural drawing at Yale, had such divergent mentors as the old Bauhaus sage Josef Albers and Abstract Collagist Corrado Marca-Relli. He synthesizes the former's color sense with the latter's pancake flatness...
Also elected were: Martin Rosenman, of Quincy House and Brooklyn, N.Y., mathematics; Jay P. Sage, of Lowell House and Ridgewood, N.J., physics; James A. Shapiro, of Leverett House and Chicago, III., English; Martin C. Spechier, of Adams House and Lima, Ohio, social studies; Stepher F. Tobias, of Dunster House and New York, N.Y., Far Eastern languages; David A. Waller, of Kirkland House and Louisville, Ky., English; Peter K. Weston, of Lowell House and Santa Barbara, Calif., history; and Lawrence J. White, of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif., economics...