Word: welching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STUART CARY WELCH joined his grammar school class on a field trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts when he was 11. At the museum, the students dutifully marched through an exhibition of Indian and Persian paintings. Welch's classmates, one supposes, paid attention to the paintings for as long as they had to. But Welch really liked what he saw. He liked it so much, in fact, that seven years later, after he finished his schooling at St. Paul's, Welch came back to Boston to study fine arts at Harvard...
...graduate of the class of '50, the second of three generations of Harvard Fine Arts concentrators, Welch took a liking to American Indian painting. As a graduate student, he studied classical art. Over the years, he developed a taste for exoticae. Today, about thirty years later, the University officially recognizes Welch as the "Curator of Muslim and Hindu Painting in the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, the Honorary Curator of Indian and Islamic Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library, and a Senior Lecturer on Fine Arts...
...Nature of Necessity (Oxford; $8.50), Plantinga, who had long opposed ontological theories, explains that his mind was changed through the curious logical process of speculating about "possible worlds" in which things could be different. For example, he says, Raquel Welch has "impressive assets" in our world. But there are possible worlds in which she is "mousy and 50 lbs. overweight," and others in which she is totally nonexistent, adding: "What Anselm means to suggest is that Raquel Welch enjoys very little greatness in those worlds in which she does not exist...
...Classy teams bounce back. Several things happened at once to cause last season's fiasco, but you can bet your Linda Ronstadt Dodger jacket they won't happen again. Dave Goltz and Don Stanhouse are here to insure that even if Doug Rau wins one of six and Bob Welch five of 11 like last year, Burt Hooton won't have to carry the pitching staff alone...
...Angelo Errichetti. The undercover agents now sought guidance from their superiors on whether to follow Weinberg's leads into the complex field of political corruption. Neil Welch, the FBI's top man in New York City, readily approved. He had long wanted to press harder against white-collar crime. But Welch also needed higher approval, first from Francis M. ("Bud") Mullen Jr., a Washington superior in charge of all FBI investigations into white-collar and organized crime. Finally, Director Webster's approval was needed...