Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest steps in the broadening of awards came after the turn of the present century when Harvard started to give full recognition for artistic achievement, especially in the realm of fiction. During the nineteenth century, doctorates accorded Whittier or Richard Henry Dana, for example, did not cite their literary merit as much as their work in the Harvard community. The commemoration of the vital role of the artist in society had to await the institution of the proper degrees...
...under the rules of his order, he may not receive the bequest. He may 1) turn it over to the Society of Jesus, or 2 ) return it to the estate...
...love with his daughter. (Solution: the farmer falls down his well, is rescued with the help of the swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author (The Art of Teaching) and classicist who teaches Greek and Latin at Columbia University. It took him a week to translate the play...
Wanted: TV producer to turn out 30 NBC spectaculars for Ford Motor Co. Budget: $12 million. Salary...
...readers, for they are set in the era before the modern welfare state-capitalist or socialist-encroached on the life of the individual. Whatever the merit of the "good old days," these stories seem to refute the notion that they were happier. In tale after tale, the plots turn on the tragedies of men and women shrugged off by society and left to the mercy of God and the charity of strangers...