Word: victor
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CLASSICAL: Nancy Cirillo, violin, and Victor Rosenbaum, piano; music of Beethoven; Jordan Hall; Friday...
...dynamic victor of Austerlitz, or the epic exile, but a man with a vision of the Universal Republic, schooled in politics by the French Revolution, in military art by genius. Studying the Corsican Eagle from military school to the first Italian campaign, Gance places the man opposite a tableau of the Revolution. And Napoleon watches it, as the convention destroys the constitutional monarchy and then itself, and the Reign of Terror seizes France. Amid the confusion, he is isolated, detached, observant...
Benito Mussolini, Napoleon, Louis XIV and Alexander the Great were all cat haters. Abraham Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer, Victor Hugo and Mark Twain were all cat lovers. I much prefer the company of the latter group...
...spent last week in Merano, the village in northern Italy's Dolomite mountains where the 30th World Chess Championship opened. Defending Champion Anatoli Karpov, 30, ordered that a plywood slab be installed underneath the chess table in the town auditorium. How's that? Well, said Karpov, Challenger Victor Korchnoi, 50, might kick him in the shins...
...Student Assembly this week elected what may be its last set of officers. Leonard T. Mendonca '83 of South House will serve as chairman; Victor G. Freeman '84, vice-chairman; and Rosemarie A. Sabatino '84, secretary. Later in the week many freshman assembly members complained that they had been unprepared for the election of officers and the discussion of important issues. The assembly may be dissolved after this semester, however, if the Dowling proposal for a new student council is implemented...