Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great-grandchildren as well. Every one could have called Kaiser Wilhelm or Czar Nicholas cousin, but more than one started life as miss or mister. Any good monarchist or earnest Anglophile could identify the lot as the youth and flower of Britain's royal family, assembled for a rare group photograph over the holidays at Windsor. From the left: James, Sarah, George, Helen, Charles, David, Andrew, Marina, Anne, Edward...
Professor Love discovered the temple on the day the first astronauts landed on the moon. "The moon and Aphrodite have been connected for thousands of years," she says. Rare as the circular Doric temple may be, an even more valuable treasure remains to be found. It is Praxiteles' bigger-than-life marble statue of the nude Aphrodite, which stood at the center of the temple on a terrace overlooking the Aegean Sea, where it safeguarded passing ships and sailors. The most renowned sculpture in all antiquity, it was judged by Pliny as "equally admirable from every angle," and copies...
Among other things, The Band's un-idealized look into yesterday includes a rare subject for pop music: consideration of the old. "Most people are knocked out by younger people," Robbie Robertson explains. "I'm knocked out by older people. Just look at their eyes. Hear them talk. They're not joking. They've seen things you'll never see." Rockin' Chair, on the latest Band LP, sketches in the weariness of old age better than pop music has any right...
...great Hamlet is coached by life itself, schooled by life to think, listen, grow, love, hate, suffer and endure. So rigorous is this demand that in these more than 31 centuries there have been no more than a dozen great Hamlets. Everyone who is alive today has the rare and illuminating privilege of seeing one of them-Nicol Williamson...
PROVIDENCE-Taking advantage of a lethargic Brown effort and a rare off night on the part of goaltender Don McGinnis, Harvard's gradually-improving hockey team exploded for four goals in the second period and eased past the Bruins, 6-3, at Meehan Rink last night...