Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your Own Thing, the off-Broadway version of Twelfth Night that won the New York Drama Critics' Award for best musical last year, is never equal to Hair, even when Hair is at its worst. The score (by Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar) makes every concession to Broadway and very few to rock. The music is all pre-Beatles rock-and-roll; some of the songs are just waiting for Leslie Gore and Connie Francis...
Communist party congresses are usu ally thoroughly predictable, ritualistic affairs, and for a time last week the Twelfth Congress of the Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios. The valiant North Vietnamese delegation was vigorously applauded, exiles from Greece were sympathetically received, and representatives from 34 other na tions were recognized. But then, for the 1,041 delegates and 4,000 observers in Bologna's overheated sports arena, the ritual ended. Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 68, signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul...
Sophomore Jim Platz broke the Dartmouth monopoly by finishing third with leaps of 116 and 143 feet. Platz's performance was the finest ever by any Harvard jumper. Sophomores Chris Ferner and Rowley Hazard finished eighth and twelfth...
...will be the first woman to live in a male college since the twelfth century," John P. Russo '64, a Dunster House tutor in English said. "Neither Oxford nor Cambridge allowed women residents," he added...
When Pope jibed at an ailing enemy as "Sporus, that mere White curd of ass's milk," he was writing with a brutal bitterness that sprang from his own wretched health. He was a gay and high-spirited youth to his twelfth year, when he contracted Pott's Disease (tuberculosis of the spine) from infected milk. The affliction left him partly crippled and progressively deformed. It also arrested his growth; Pope never exceeded 4 ft. 6 in. (a "little Aesopic sort of an animal," a "venomous . . . hunchbacked toad," in the words of his tough contemporaries...