Word: stevenson
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...volumes of what he considered to be the 100 most important works in English literature. Whether saved because of their fine bindings or illustrious owners, the Widener collection heralds the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by Dickens, Donne, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Authors presented many of these volumes to royalty and friends. As a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, Widener was also inclined to collect books depicting fanciful costumes from France and Spain, says Henri K. Stegemeier, an associate curator of the Widener Room...
...larger moral context. To discuss the morality of actions was evidence of softness, and intellectuals with power in their hands cannot bear to be thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality of an act. After the Bay of Pigs, Bowles wrote: "The Cuban fiasco demonstrates how far astray a man as brilliant and well-intentioned as President Kennedy can go who lacks a basic moral reference point...
PROVIDENCE. R.I.-The Harvard women's soccer team stood in shock on Brown's Stevenson Field Saturday after its 5-3 loss. Nearby the Bruins and their fans were cheering and breaking out the champagne to celebrate the Ivy League Championship...
...Robert Louis Stevenson saw him, James Durie, the Master of Ballantrae, dressed entirely in black and had the bearing "of one who was a fighter and accustomed to command." His brother Henry "had the essence of a gentleman, but... he fell short of the ornamental." What is more, the family was a bit hard-pressed for funds. Something has been lost in the translation. As elegantly portrayed by Michael York, 41, and Richard Thomas, 32, in a three-hour CBS-TV version to be aired next year, James and Henry seem to have been modeled less on the hardy Duries...
Thomas Hicks has abandoned his commercial photography business in Portland, Ore., to devote himself to trading them. Webb Williams, Exxon Corp.'s trust fund manager, spends an increasing portion of his time investing in them for his company. So does Charles Stevenson, who operates his own New York-based money management firm. Venturesome traders across the U.S. are turning an esoteric-sounding new way of investing money into one of the hottest and fastest-growing ways to cash in on the bull market: stock index futures contracts. They are akin to commodities contracts, but on nothing so tangible...