Word: townsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting Monday marked by a large turnout, Glimp, a Belmont resident, won by a 2000-vote margin over fellow townsman William R. Morrison Jr. '51. Glimp is a member of the Democratic Town Committee, but ran without party affiliation in the non-partisan election. He will serve a one-year term on the six-member board. Complete returns were not available until early yesterday morning due to the snowstorm...
...Geometry was the cornerstone of 17th century scientific investigation; well aware of it, Vermeer laid out his paintings in a wizardly arrangement of planes, lines, cubes and cones. He also used the camera obscura, a forerunner of photography. In all probability, he was introduced to it by his fellow townsman Anton van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of a microscope, pioneer in optical research, and thought by some critics to be the young scholar portrayed in The Astronomer...
...took the beating he had expected, and he was a graceful loser. In his concession speech to weeping admirers in Springfield, Ill., he said in a somewhat halting way: "Someone asked me, as I came in, how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell-Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh...
...ALDEBURGH CONCERTS (June 1527) take place in the small local hall and Norman churches surrounding this tiny (pop. 3,000) fishing village on the windswept east coast of England. Chief attraction is Townsman Benjamin Britten. Primarily devoted to chamber music, the program will include a cycle of 15th and 20th century English church music, plus a concert by Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, accompanied on the piano by Composer Britten...
...habit Egyptians cannot kick is the galabiya, the loose, ankle-length cotton garment that looks like a nightshirt and acts as an air conditioner of sorts in Egypt's sweltering heat. Fellah (peasant) and townsman alike have worn the flowing gown since the days of the pharaohs, and no amount of cajoling by Nasser's Ministry of Culture and National Guidance has been able to convince Egyptians that they should switch to that restricting jacket-shirt-and-pants that those strange, perspiring foreigners seem to prefer...