Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Born of Welsh parentage in Hot Springs, S. Dak., Thomas was preoccupied from childhood with the notion of "doing something for humanity." This, he says, led him to major in psychology at the University of Nebraska, then to a job as a high school counselor in Oregon. "I was tremendously successful in my field," he confesses. He was at Stanford, working for a doctorate, when a voice teacher heard him sing in a university production. The teacher encouraged him to take voice lessons, and after four years of study Thomas decided to take the plunge. At the advanced (for opera...
Robinson taught courses in early Irish and Welsh. According to Charles W. Dunn '42, professor of Celtic Languages. Dunn, even though a member of the English Department, was of "great assistance" to the Celtic Department...
...kitchen to answer the front door. Burton disclosed that his wife had been invited by Oxford University to play Helen of Troy, "if," giggled Liz, "I lose 20 pounds." Sammy laughed, perhaps too uproariously. Whereupon the Burtons launched into a shatteringly off-key rendition of a folk song in Welsh. "I love it!" cried Sammy. Burton's reply was more to the point: "It's hopeless." For a closer, the three sang an arrangement of What Do Simple Folk Do?, during which the Burtons shuffled, snapped their fingers, bellowed, and otherwise cavorted just like simple folk...
THUNDERBALL (Parrot). John Barry's theme for the new Bond movie seems to be zooming off just like his Goldfinger. The excellent voice belongs to Tom Jones, a Welsh miner...
Though he is the son of a Welsh miner who became an M.P., the elegant Jenkins by taste and temperament is far more at home in London's salons than the New Towns' public saloons. As early as Oxford, Jenkins found himself at odds with the woolly Marxism of the university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian...