Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of clamorous pressure, Congress has not acted so far. Rachel Carson's poignant death last week at her home in Silver Spring, Md., after years of suffering, came at a time when the whole problem was under cool consideration. It seems likely now that any law which may finally be passed to regulate pesticides-some of which are really dangerous-will be reasonable and constructive. For her luminous life of The Sea, and for her part in wakening her countrymen to the possible perils from pesticides and other chemicals, Rachel Carson may be remembered for many a spring...
...years, Don Carlos plunged the riches he gets from Mexican silver mines, South African diamonds and Spanish real estate into the empty 89-room palazzo. For an estimated $3,000,000, he created a magnificent clutter. Oriental porcelains and blue Sevres china, Roman drinking cups and medieval armory filled every corner. Gobelin tapestries, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, caparisoned the walls. His personal squadron of ten gondoliers was liveried in silk and velvet costumes copied from Tiepolo and other old masters. In 1951, Don Carlos, decked out in a curly peruke and balanced atop 16-in.-platform shoes that...
...blonde Dutch-boy bob, Bette looks like a degenerate Hans Brinker, and she plays a wealthy old skate who lays out plenty of silver to keep Son Horst from nipping off. She offers him an Austin-Healey, a luxuriantly upholstered housemaid ("or find a nice married woman in your own world"), and cold cash. Horst uses the money to set himself up as a bohemian artist in Rome, but he can't fill his life or his canvas because "there is nothing worth painting." Ultimately, he finds redemption through fleshly enslavement to Catherine, an amoral part-time model...
Preceding the discussion, Alan H. Silver '64, regional president of the Student Zionist Organization, presented the findings of the questionnaire about Harvard students' attitudes toward their Judaism...
...Silver noted that a majority of the 500 respondants felt that college had either not affected their Jewishness, or bad increased it. Many expressed a disinclination to express their Jewishness in theological terms, but did not feel that they had the proper educational background to substitute another context for identification...