Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Ivy team that will launch a strong challenge for the League title is Cornell. The Big Red had already crushed Columbia in a pre-holidays game, and went on to take the Kodak Classic in Rochester, N.Y., with victories over Holy Cross and University of Rochester. Cornell has also beaten Niagara, 84-78, a team led by the nation's leading scorer, Calvin Murphy. The Big Red boast a 7-1 record to date...
Dartmouth lost to powerful Tulance, 74-67, in the Hurricane Classic. Penn finished fifth in the Quaker City tournament, losing to Wisconsin in the opener but beating Providence, 61-48. Brown lost non-tournament games to Ciglethrope and Miami, but beat Steson...
Playing the imprimatur game can be as delicate as finding a publisher for a first novel. A classic case involved The Layman in the Church, a collection of essays from Commonweal magazine that was published by Herder and Herder in 1962. Although the articles had caused no great stir when printed in magazine form, the late Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York refused to give his imprimatur; because Spellman said no, Herder and Herder was turned down by three other bishops - of Philadelphia, Rockville Centre, N.Y., and Harrisburg, Pa.-before getting approval from the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Since then, Herder...
Whenever a children's classic has been blessed with great illustrations, a film version of the story almost always seems like a betrayal of trust. No movie could ever match the sweep and detail of N. C. Wyeth's paintings for Treasure Island, and Tenniel's droll grotesques for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remain as much a part of the book's charm as Alice herself...
...Dickens, Balzac and Fitzgerald. Along the way to their Ph.D.s, students must master, among other things, five fields of religious study, including the Bible and the history of Christianity, the position of one major modern theologian or the entire body of one major writer's work, and one classic of criticism-plus two foreign languages, usually German and French. The most harrowing obstacle is an oral examination during which the candidate must defend a paper explaining his critical principles before a panel of twelve professors from both the divinity and English faculties...