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Word: seconder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second part of the play is a masquerade, a play within a play, in which Lermontov, the young girl he wants to marry, the older woman who is his mistress, and her husband, become the characters of a story that Lermontov writes partly as an escape from his sorrow over Pushkin's death, which he attributes, with some justice, to the evil of the court. This story is taken from the novel by Lermontov from which the title of the play comes...

Author: By Aileen Jacobson, | Title: On Art and Politics | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...because its hero is a man who "did not take things as they are." Pushkin's most famous poem, Eugene Onegin, is a treatment of that subject, and it is partly on this poem and partly on Byron's Don Juan that Lermontov bases the story that is the second part of the play...

Author: By Aileen Jacobson, | Title: On Art and Politics | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...weekend does have its advantages. First, hundreds of people from a basically homogeneous group all bent on having fun are, of themselves, bound to create an experience which no committee can plan fully. It is a unity not unlike that generated by a football game or a freshman riot. Second, Jubilee is a great release from the pressures of the freshman year. And third, it's probably the last time for the next twenty eight years that members of the class will get together socially and informally (and by that time they may be too old to enjoy themselves...

Author: By Peter J. Bernbaum, | Title: The Glorious Story of Jubilee: Why You Want to Go This Year | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

With the final results for four events in, the Crimson held first place with 34 points, while Tufts was a distant second with nine. There seems little chance that Harvard's lead will be in danger when the meet wraps up tomorrow with the running events at Boston College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victory Seems Certain In Boston Track Meet | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

Sophomore Richie Szaro hurled the spear 236', just seven feet short of the Harvard record he set in this year's Army meet. Football quarterback Frank Champi, doubling this spring as a javelin thrower, took second with a 209' throw. Rounding out the sweep was senior Henry Bernson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victory Seems Certain In Boston Track Meet | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

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