Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stylites, as they were called, perched on platforms as high as 80 feet; lived on olives; occasionally were struck by lightning. Stylites like St. Simeon found "refuge in a tree as Noah found it in an ark, so as to avoid contact with a condemned world in its last agony and lead the life of a bird in the branches and the wind, a bird possessed of God and the thought of Heaven...
Foster, a poor boy from Boston, had everything to do with Reed. He went to Harvard and hated it. Foster in 1911 became the first president of Reed, which had been founded with $1,500,000 left by the widow of Simeon G. Reed (no kin of John), a Columbia River shipping magnate. Foster deliberately made Reed the informal, freewheeling opposite of then snooty, monolithic Harvard...
...Howard Fried, David Griffith (an undergraduate in the College), William Shores, and John Fiorito, made the most of the dramatic opportunities of their parts; doubling as angels in Part II, they were a smooth and delicate quartet. Particularly impressive was Arnold Voketaitis, bass, who sang God the Father and Simeon the Prophet. Throughout, he carefully controlled and phrased the rich tone of his voice...
Born. To King Simeon II, 25, King of Bulgaria, who was deposed from his throne at the age of nine by the Communists after World War II, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 26, jet-haired light of Madrid's aristocratic high life: their first child, a boy; in Madrid...
...seven years as Washington bureau chief for Ebony, Tan and Jet magazines, Simeon Booker had never written words that pained him more. Yet the facts were clear, and Booker set them forth in a letter sent last week to three Washington newspapers. "What I saw at the District of Columbia Stadium," he said, "easily could have duplicated what I saw covering the Little Rock school desegregation case, or the bus station mob during the Freedom Rides to Birmingham, or the Emmett Till case in Mississippi. The difference, ironically, was that the predominant number of offenders were Negro. The explosion...