Word: saxonism
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...battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning his blue at boxing (although a Cambridge tiger defeated him recently), and writing the first 50 pages of a novel-"a sort of complicated thing, in which I look at the same episode through...
...Europeans is the double version-one for export, one for domestic consumption. The code is still strong enough so that U.S. viewers of Cry Tough will see Linda Cristal with a blouse on instead of bare to the waist when she does her love scene with John Saxon. But Hollywood, faced with the stinging competition of TV and foreign films, is in the mood to shed any garments that seem to get in the way at the box office...
...Sandra shall go overboard for a suet-mouthed Guardsman, despite the fact that he is much adored by Kay's best friend's wallflower daughter. (Coos Kay: "I do think she's wise not dancing all the time.") Instead, Sandra obstinately falls for a bounder (John Saxon). "First of all," says a friend in explaining Saxon's shortcomings, "he's half Italian." Second of all, he plays the drums in a society orchestra, and third, he is given to vividly detailed descriptions of African fertility dances...
...roof came into being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince of princes. Francis I, who on Aug. 2, 1546 gave the royal...
...have great respect for the field of English, perhaps less so for the department. I threatened to resign from the university and go to Oxford when they reneged on permission to write a thesis." He changed his mind about doing honors but wrote a thesis anyway on Anglo-Saxon poetry, a taste he acquired at Oxford, where such matters are encouraged to the point of compulsion...