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Hope W. Wigglesworth '48, director fo the Radcliffe College Fund, said yesterday, "Jessica's qualifications are splendid--she is a wonderful addition to our staff...
...Duellists uses the beauty of the French landscape to comment gently on the frenzy of the men bloodying themselves in its soft fields. In the end, after a resolution of sorts has been achieved between the two men, Feraud stands, back to the camera, looking out at a splendid river valley. The last duel has been fought. The scene is one of peace...
...some costly and elaborate make-believe edifice that he wants on the screen constantly, shot from as many angles as possible, in order to justify its expense. Far from resisting this demand, the director will typically respond with bursts of enthusiastic inventiveness-a kid playing happily with a splendid...
Rosalynn has handed out her 200 Polish-Pride coloring books to the kids of Warsaw and some jazz tapes to the city's hep older citizens. The Shah of Iran has been given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...
...With its splendid hoard of half a million words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the central bank of the language -a trove of Latinate abstractions. Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic. It contains a million and a half quotations to show the historical progress of language, the way its vocabularies have stirred, matured in meaning and eventually decayed. But the logomaniac's great joy in the O.E.D. is to wander through it looking for the glint of old coins: sippet, maumetry, floscule, gimmer, the wonderfully dark deathbird...