Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for the new Harvard Theatre received "general acceptance" by the Faculty Committee on Theatre at a meeting yesterday, it has been learned. The set of preliminary sketches drawn by architect Hugh A. Stubbins will be sent to President Pusey for approval within the next week...
...week of triumph. He was besieged by professional offers and trailed by adoring crowds that recognized him on sight, called him first "Vanya'' (Little Van) and later "Vanyusha," an even more intimately endearing diminutive. His arrivals and departures at the conservatory set off small riots. Girls sent fresh blossoms to his practice room, and when word got around that he had lost weight and that he suffers from colitis, platoons of females turned up with bags of oranges. One determined girl even popped up in his room at the Hotel Peking in the middle of the night...
...built a sanctuary with pulpit, piano, pews and mourner's bench, a bunkroom with modern kitchen, showers and storage areas. Hager opened his doors to the hungry and homeless on Jan. 8, 1956, has given lodgings to more than 4,000 of them, served 22,000 meals, and sent 650 converts to churches of their choice. Every night Ken Hager, now a minister of the Church of the Nazarene, welcomes them to an informal nondenominational service of hymn and prayer...
...Consul, Napoleon had guessed, quite rightly, that Mme. de Staël "wanted to put him on guard against himself" and to play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after Napoleon had become Emperor, Mme. Récamier still shied away, Bonaparte engraved her name forever in his so-called Great Book of Suspects. Just to top off the awful insult...
Noting that he had sent "no more than two or three papers" to Czech scholars in the past year, Jakobson stated that the accusations had come as a "complete surprise." In his last visit to Czechoslovakia, he reported, he had been well received, and a lecture which he gave at Prague University had been "warmly reviewed...