Word: peter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: A graphic design by Peter...
...Peter Brook's direction of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade...
...Peter Goldmark of CBS Labs announces invention of Electronic Video Recording...
...ever slumber unless when women are ravished or the Christians persecuted." Today's scholars are more likely to complain that Gibbon was weak on the Byzantine and that he was most responsive to Romans like the Augustans, who resembled himself: "Urbane, accomplished, and occasionally a trifle pompous," as Peter Quennell put it in a Gibbon profile. Despite his limits, unpredictably, erratically, marvelously, Gibbon and Rome did go together. "Gibbon is a kind of bridge," Thomas Carlyle once summed him up, "that connects the antique with the modern ages." These memoirs, composed in a number of drafts, were all that...
...Peter Principle, Peter and Hull...