Word: antonic
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Uphill Fight. I.S.C.M. did that, and more. In its annual festivals, it helped spread the news (and the international reputations) of such men as Twelve-Ton-ists Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg, France's Darius Milbaud and Olivier Messiaen, Italy's Luigi Dallapiccola, the U.S.'s Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland...
...exams, football weekends, and the faculty that brought occasional giggles from classmates. He described how a history major wrote on his exam that a triple entente was a large club sandwich at the Wursthaus, a Math major proved the earth was a triangle, and an English concentrator claimed Anton Chekhov ran a delicatessen in Brooklyn...
After World War II, the people of Denmark, cooped up by the Nazi occupation for four years, felt an urge to explore the world, even if only vicariously. A Danish Expedition Fund was set up, but it had no funds. Then Oceanographer Anton F. Bruun had a bright idea. He persuaded the government to waive import taxes on scarce luxury goods sent to the Expedition Fund by overseas Danes. A hint to overseas Danes was enough. Back came a flood of canned pineapple, coconuts, cigarettes, honey. The gifts sold for $600,000 and paid for equipping the Galathea, an oceanographic...
...Galathea took, in all, about 16,000 specimens ranging from bottom ooze to a young sea elephant, captured on Campbell Island near New Zealand. This specimen has been named Sir Anton after Dr. Bruun. He eats ten pounds of fish a day, lives in the officers' bathroom, and has just recovered from bronchitis...
...PETER ANTON...