Word: sylvan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after he turned six, his life changed. His father Richard, according to Cole's uncle and records on file at the Dalton School, died in a car crash. Cole, who was in the car, hurt his ankles but escaped permanent injury, says the uncle, New York City prints dealers Sylvan Cole...
Cole's mother was a lawyer who taught at Columbia for some time, according to Sylvan Cole. The well-off couple lived in the city, and they currently reside in a Riverside Drive apartment overlooking the Hudson, worth between...
...what kind of future? In a country where the idols and ideals of the past have been shattered, Solzhenitsyn, at 75, remains a moral authority for millions of Russians: one man who stood up against the totalitarian state and survived. During nearly two decades in a sylvan Vermont retreat, he has been preparing for the end of communism and nurturing his own vision of a new Russia...
Bergman plays with several different elements in "Smiles of a Summer Night." The film is grounded in the notion of Shakespearean comedy, particularly A Midsummer Night's Dream. The tropes of the husband and wife who are separated and then reunited, the sylvan atmosphere and the magic spells buttress the film. Egerman is very much like Bottom; he plays an ass throughout the movie, but at the end, after Anne has run off with Henrik, he is made human again. The film also contains echoes of Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro and allusions to Jean Renior's classic 1939 film...
Harvard's is a plum among the nation's cornucopia of faculty clubs. According to Charles (Chuck) Coulson, general manager emeritus, The Faculty Club is ranked among the top few in the nation in surveys of cuisine, architecture and ambiance. The building is situated in a sylvan island, nestled between the Freshman Union and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Upon venturing into the Club from the regal front entrance, a regal visitor walks through a regal entry foyer, where, more often than not, a student is pounding out a melody on a regal grand piano. A curved stairway...