Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Palmer denied earlier reports that Hasty Pudding had asked Sir Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, and Woody Allen to accept the award and that each had turned it down...
...such a dramatic rendering of Frye's presence at Harvard betrays the theories he elaborated in his Norton lectures, if should convey at least a small portion of their urgency. Their central subject, Romance, is what Frye means when he refers to "secular scripture." Spencer's The Faerie Queen, Sir Walter Scott's novels, such as Ivanhoe and Redgauntlet, and the fantasies of William Morris, such as Earthly Paradise and New From Nowhere, are some of the more important works of Romance, which broadly speaking, is the literary development of formulas rooted in folklore. Romance is called secular scripture...
...TIME cover story on campus life called "The New Hedonism" (see cut). Officials at the local college were promptly besieged by complaints from alumni, and a dean called Zonker Harris to explain. Zonker blamed the exaggerated story on TIME's reporter and editors: "They're just jealous, sir-they missed out on communal living...
...duty at batallion headquarters. But sometimes Fussell gets caught up in that class-determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close by but that Blunden only heard about. Blunden's gardner-servant told him, "Don't go over, sir, it's awful." Why don't we hear more of what the valet or others like him had to say and write about...
...Died. Sir Alexander Haddow, 69, trail-blazing cancer expert who directed London's famed Chester Beatty Research Institute, Royal Cancer Hospital from 1946 to 1969; in Amersham, England. Starting at the institute in 1936, Haddow joined a research team that pointed to the value of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. He was knighted for his work...