Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Square- Justine, adapted from Lawrence Durcll's "Alexandria Quartet"; and Hard Contract...
...Quincy House and Newton Centre, and John A. Simop '72 of Dunster House and Chicago to the News Board: Lynn M. Darling '72 of Cabot Hall and Fairfax, Va., Jeffrey S. Golden '72 of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Cal., James M. Lewis '70-3 of Eliot House and Alexandria. Va., and Jerry Nepom '72 of Leverett House and Portland, Ore. to the Editorial Board...
When nations were smaller than they are today, Athens could be great with 100,000 people, Renaissance Florence with 60,000, Alexandria with 700,000 and ancient Rome with something like 1,000,000-no more than live in metropolitan Indianapolis now. To represent all the diverse elements of much more populous societies-diversity is one essential of greatness-the city must now have a population of several millions. Cincinnati and Phoenix, to cite two typical American provincial cities, may be agreeable places to live in, but they are simply not large enough to contain, as does New York...
Died. Thurman W. Arnold, 78, eminent Washington lawyer and onetime New Deal trustbuster; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. As an Assistant Attorney General from 1938 to 1943, Arnold initiated more antitrust suits (230) than any other individual in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, winning major decisions against the American Medical Association, Standard Oil of New Jersey and the Associated Press. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1943 but quit two years later to establish his own firm with Paul Porter and Abe Fortas; generous and liberal...
...visit to Corfu's countess, a dotty and rotund old party who forced him to share a six-course lunch climaxed by a whole wild boar. There are inevitable references to the boat-scuttling yachtsmanship of Eldest Brother Larry (now better known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet...