Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large advertisements surround this column of print. On the right, bottled expensively, is an elegant perfume: "Superb fragrances," it promises its buyers. The names below have their appeal, too: "Baroness," "White Shoulders...
...bobble was preceded by some superb Harvard offensive play. After Yale's early field goal attempt fell short, Harvard took over the ball on the 20. The Crimson's first three plays moved it 12 yards, and a clipping penalty on a Bulldog advanced the ball...
...with supplying a special flavors to the House. More than a few Eliot House residents went out of their way to attribute the House's distinction to Master John H. Finley. Conversely, many at the College's newest House blamed its Administration for a multitude of shortcomings. Despite its superb physical plant and very high rate of "first choices" on freshman applications, residents of Quincy rose to heights of vituperation in criticizing the House and their fellow members...
Bill Grana, I suspect, is every bit as good a student and as pleasant a person as Archie if not more so. He is also one of the best football players in the League. But, Grana, who makes as many contributions to the team with his superb blocking as with his ball carrying, lacks the celebrity aura...
...long section on Clifford: biography, as detailed as I'd want to read; a fascinating treatment of Clifford's work; and glimpses of the twentieth-century relevance of his visions. These are carefully partitioned, hence Newman's touch is convincing here as nowhere else. Clifford emerges as a superb mathematician even in the company of the nineteenth-century geniuses. He was one of the last to work with equal success on several mathematical fronts, Poincare being perhaps the last who managed it. Clifford spun out the consequences of the new non-Euclidean geometries and of Abelian function theory; he also...