Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admissions committees savor good grades in science, and there is no denying that an honor grade in organic chemistry leaves a pleasant taste in their mouths. (Although one doctor claims that "A" students in organic "worry" him, unfortunately he is an exception). These committees, however, are no more titillated by an honors performance in this subject than they are by similar success in any other moderately challenging science course...
...first let me state my prejudices. As I sank into my chair at the start of the brilliant Yeats translation of Rex, I wanted to close my eyes, undisturbed for once by theatrical gimmicks, and savor the beauty of Yeats' work--to admire the careful logic of his temperate speeches in prose, only to be transported by the dazzling beauty of the choral speeches in verse. At first the characters permitted me to relax in my reveries by their well-studied, careful excellence of voice. Mark Bramhall, Harvard's leading man of the stage and by rights cast as Oedipus...
...Wildcats never wound up higher than third in the Big Ten, but there were plenty of moments to savor: a 21-0 victory over Ohio State that ended the Buckeyes' 14-game unbeaten streak, the 45-13 crushing of Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma team on nationwide TV-and the four straight victories over Notre Dame that, more than anything else, convinced the Irish that Parseghian was the man to put a new coat of gold on the dome...
Nervous, introverted, Brassens does not savor the notoriety. Son of a Flemish bricklayer, he was raised in the Mediterranean village of Séte. He quit school before graduating and, at 18, worked at odd jobs, wrote poetry and bummed around the cafes. In 1952, friends took him to a tiny club run by Patachou, Paris' famed chanteuse, and goaded him into singing. One week later he was the sensation of Paris...
...will have ample opportunity to savor it at firsthand. Phillips has won a 21-month Harkness Foundation fellowship that will enable him to paint and study in New York. He is convinced that the British painters will enjoy a long renaissance. Says he: "There'll be a lot of good people coming after us, and the older generation have started thinking again. For once, all the good artists are pulling their weight in England these days...