Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...semester at Harvard was both enjoyable and satisfying, but I came here with my eyes open, not expecting immortal truths and revelations to fall into my lap every time I shook the academic tree. It is an attitude I heartily commend to all incoming freshmen for, as a sage old British friend once told me, "The only place one is likely to find the Philosopher's Stone is in the gallbladder of a bilious pedant." What I sought during my stay at Harvard was not Veritas (how many of us would recognize that rare commodity even if we did come...
...superstar if he had gone commercial the way Dylan did. But it was clear why they never made it when his band led off the show: their solo set left the audience wondering if they sounded more like a pallid imitation of the New Riders of the Purple Sage or a bland version of the Youngbloods...
International Sage. Even then Toynbee had his critics, who accused him of romanticism, vagueness and even factual error. But he had become an international sage, like Einstein, Schweitzer or Bertrand Russell, who was asked for his opinion on all manner of subjects. A mild and white-haired figure, married to his longtime research assistant, Veronica Boulter (his 33-year first marriage ended in divorce in 1946), Toynbee frequently visited U.S. universities and once commented that the things he liked best about the U.S. were Bing Crosby and peanut butter. Not all his views were so benign. When...
Died. Baseball's Casey Stengel, 85, garrulous sage and part-time genius (see SPORT...
Following the advice of the sage Ned Martin, Billy Berkowitz, a freshman from Lionel, decided that being there would be twice the fun. "Actually a third of the fun is just getting the tickets, another third being there and the last third is the game itself...