Word: jourdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also promised them an Armageddon with a postscript of a land of "milk and honey" reserved exclusively for red men, of course. The result was gunpowder, chaos and tragedy for those who tried to hurry Armageddon, and those who maintained quiet hopes must still be waiting. Spencer C. D. Jourdain...
...finalists for the Boylston Prize Speaking Contest have been chosen from a field of 35 contestants. They are: Paul L. DeVore '63, Peter A. Flynn '63, Nathaniel Frothingham '61, Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, David G. Gullette '62, Spencer Jourdain '62, Stanley F. Pickett '63, Phillip Stotter '63, William C. Taubman '62, and Gregg D. Wood '62. The prize winner will be selected from among these students on March...
...SPENCER JOURDAIN...
Early sorrow, in the death of her mother and two brothers while she was in her 203, shadowed Compton-Burnett's life and doubtless her fiction. A lonely woman, especially since the death of her companion, Journalist Margaret Jourdain, in 1951, she is no recluse. She is a theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description...