Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apples & Atoms. Though Oxford and Cambridge are twin peaks of English education, Americans are more aware of Oxford, perhaps because Rhodes scholars go there. Few even realize that the reputable university in Cambridge, Mass., was founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
...first, the Von Kessens seem to Augustine merely odd. They shoot foxes, and twin children are punished by being dog-chained to the castle wall. Uncle Otto broods about the defeat of the German army and the insolence of the Red militiamen roaming the Ruhr. His young cousin Franz speculates on the nature of politics and violence with a mystical intensity that shocks the rationalistic Englishman. There is a pet fox in the attic. Also in the attic, though Augustine does not know it, is a young, half-crazed fanatic sought by the police as a member of a proto...
...story concerns Cassandra Edwards' neurotic, domineering attachment for her twin sister Judith. Judy leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home to break up the engagement, intends to regain possession of her less brilliant but saner sister's soul, and go off with her, far away, to live happily ever after. When other methods fail, Cass attempts suicide. But Judith and her young man, already secretly married, save her life...
...Garcia, whose cronies had systematically plundered the country's resources and sold favors to the highest bidders. Cynics wondered whether Macapagal's first moves were only part of a pose-he put up for sale Garcia's $2,500,000 presidential yacht Lapn-Lapu and his twin-engine Fokker turboprop plane, canceled the traditional inaugural ball to mingle with the tao (common people) at an outdoor dance. During his first month in office he began to convince the country that he meant to keep his pledge...
...Mightiest of all Wurlitzers: Radio City Music Hall's 58-rank monster with twin four-manual consoles, still in constant use after 30 years of intermissions...