Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has been overlooked by most classicists as well as by the grammarians of ancient Greece. Translator Graves theorizes, is that the Iliad was meant to be entertainment, not solemn tragedy. In Graves's view, the poem is a satirical work in which Homer lampooned the princelings at whose courts he recited, while pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus...
...magnificent obsessions with the wit and wiles of the English language began at his father's breakfast table. Of a morning, John Joyce might read an obituary. "Oh! Don't tell me that Mrs. Cassidy is dead," protested James's mother on one occasion. "Well, I don't quite know about that," said Papa Joyce with a quizzical glint in his monocled eye, "but someone has taken the liberty of burying...
Other CCA candidates finished well behind Watson's tenth place showing. Richard E. McLaughlin had around 2,000 votes, some 600 below Watson's final total. Still more CCA candidates trailed McLaughlin...
This question concerns tactics as well as strategy. Even members of the Administration have said that Harvard has no excuse for opposing the loyalty affidavit as long as it accepts the NSF fellowships. Furthermore, if the NSF oath is ever to be repealed, the change will have to be part of a larger crusade, for, by itself, the NSF issue is of little importance to most of the country...
...muddy field, the Tigers outplayed the Crimson for most of the game. The Princeton offense was surprisingly well-coordinated in a myriad of puddles that slowed up passes and muffled shots. And the Tiger defense, led by goalie Mickey Michel, stopped every Crimson threat with tremendous all-out efforts...