Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheppe--who once announced that the English language would be improved if the first-person singular pronoun were eliminated, and then proceeded to converse through an entire meal without using it--is also interested in languages. He will continue his education next year in Germany, where he will study philology on a German scholarship administered in this country by the Fulbright committee. He speaks several European languages in varying degrees of fluency, and has picked up snatches of many languages from students and visiting scholars; he counts a recent course in Arabic as among his favorite at Harvard. Still...
...Caldwell has received a Tony nomination for her performance in Medea, and in this paltry season, no one would begrudge her that. Yet the accolade outshines the achievement. Caldwell's interpretation of the role is singular and peculiarly self-indulgent...
Professor of Greek and Latin Gregory Nagy plans to delve into some Pindar this summer, but he suggests a singular literary journey for students. If they read anything at all, they must read the Robert S. Fitzgerald '33 translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nagy assigns the Richard Lattimore version for his perennially popular course Lit & Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization." He lauds the Fitzgerald translation as a "beautiful experience because of its artists unity...
...losing one to the Middies was excusable, because (a) they are one of the circuit's finer teams and (b) Harvard only avoided an 0-4 weekend with a five-run comeback in the second game, finding a way to drop two games to Princeton requires a singular effort...
...missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself in 1885), he doomed "that singular anomaly, the striking railway-ist-I know he 'II not be missed, he never will be missed." Londoners, plagued by labor squabbles that shut down commuter trains, laughed wryly...