Word: wolfing
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Louverie or Lower? Bazin makes the dramatic history of how the roof came into being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince...
Messiah & Wolf. So precarious was Mother's way of life that young O'Connor once spent two years near Boulogne with a French family before Mother was able to raise the money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into...
...Stephen November, Economics; David Reiss, Psychology; George Nicholas Rogentine, Jr., Biochemical Sciences; Michael Paul Rogin, Government; George Michael Rossman, Engineering and Applied Physics; Richard Lewis Roth, Mathematics; David Savitz, Chemistry; Michael Charles Senturia, Music; Thomas Jack Shankland, Engineering and Applied Physics; Lynn Johnston Taylor, Chemistry and Physics; Marshall Alan Wolf, Chemistry; Michael Wortis, Physics; Richard Philip Zimon, Biology...
Winners of Sheldon Travelling Fellowship are: Robert A. Gorman '58, of Adams House and Flushing, New York; John W. M. Perkins '58, of Lowell House and St. Louis; and Marshall A. Wolf '58, of Eliot House and Chicago...
Among U.S. shippers, the Isbrandtsen Steamship Line is a lone sea wolf. The biggest independent line operator in the world, Isbrandtsen has fought governments around the globe in the name of freedom of the seas, has battled fellow shippers to establish free rates. Last week, after a ten-year battle, Isbrandtsen recorded the most important victory in its log book. Ruling in Isbrandtsen's favor, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the rate-setting practices of the international shipping conferences-voluntary groups of U.S. and foreign lines-thus opening the way for a flurry of price-cutting...