Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 73, Scottish-born scientist who was knighted in 1942 for helping to win the Battle of Britain as the principal inventor of radar; and Dame Katherine Forbes, 66, wartime head of the R.A.F. women's auxiliary; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
Writing to Ravel. She is, in short, the acknowledged queen of spy story writers, and a handsome queen of great charm to boot. Possessed of a Scottish burr and a Glasgow University master of arts degree, she married Gilbert Highet, an Oxford don, in 1932. Five years later, Highet was invited to lecture at Columbia, and the Highets moved to New York with their three-year-old son Keith, now 32 and a Manhattan lawyer. The Highets were so taken with Columbia and New York that they decided to remain; they became citizens...
Dunn teaches one undergraduate course: Celtic 100. "Celtic Literature in Translation." Some undergraduates also attend his courses in Middle Irish, Early Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic...
...Harvard, Dunn had taught Celtic Literature in Translation, Middle Irish, Early Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and seminars on Middle Celtic. He won't say how many languages he can speak or read. "But if I were isolated on a desert island," he speculates, "I would quite naturally study whatever was at hand, I suppose...
There's likely to be some fun for Quincy House, too. Dunn is known to wear a dress kilt to formal Lowell House dinners, and he and his wife excel at Scottish country dancing. As for the bagpipes, "the upper pent-house of Quincy," he says, "is a very suitable place for them...