Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With slavery's passing and the coming of the Industrial Revolution, Britain's interest in Nigeria shifted from people to palm oil. To get the oil, British trading companies began to penetrate the interior of Nigeria-and after them came the Union Jack. By 1903, when Sir Frederick Lugard (later Lord Lugard) began his campaigns against the Northern emirs, British rule in Nigeria was an accepted international fact. But even yet no one conceived of northern and southern Nigeria as having anything but a geographical connection; the word Nigeria itself was coined by a London Times contributor named...
...George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) is listed just north of the lamb chops. Beethoven is down by the shrimp, Hindemith to the left of the lobster. This unique wedding of calories to composers occurs on the menu of a restaurant in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, and it is dedicated to an intriguing proposition: if jazz can move into the concert hall, classical music can move into...
...Samarra, is an offstage incident in one of them. The prose has the great clarity of all of O'Hara's writing, and an economy of expression that he has seemed afraid to trust in such vast recent novels as From the Terrace and Ten North Frederick...
Robert L. Pillsbury '61, a tackle, has been selected by his teammates as the most valuable player on the 1960 varsity football team. Pillsbury, of Winthrop House and Wollaston, received the Frederick Greely Crocker Award, emblematic of the MVP honor, at the annual Harvard Club of Boston banquet for the team last night...
...mellifluous voice is the chief asset of Richard Conrad, who plays Frederick. He also displays a slightly satirical and detached attitude toward the script, shared to a lessor extent by the rest of the company, and far preferable to the D'Oyly Carte embalming job. Occasionally he lapsed into honeyed blandness, but he usually kept his acting good enough to let his singing make him a first-rate performer...