Word: valedictorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling as sweetly as a high school valedictorian, Callas graciously received photographers in her dressing room, heaped verbal bouquets on her English hosts: "They behave like gentlemen to me." Even more gentlemanly were the visiting Texans; they were savoring the announcement that Callas had agreed to help out next season in the Dallas Civic Opera's Barber of Seville by taking the place of Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, who is pregnant. It was suggested...
...Colossal Effrontery." Son of a Virginia shoe jobber, Lewis Strauss (pronounced straws) was born in Charleston, W. Va., raised in Richmond. Chosen valedictorian of his high school class, he combined his two boyhood passions, physics and religion, in an address entitled "Science and Theology: A Reconciliation." "Fortunately," says Strauss, "this colossal effrontery has not survived...
...graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton, a philosophy major and valedictorian of the class ('08). He went on to score George Washington University's highest law marks to that date, got a bright start as a young international lawyer for New York's Sullivan & Cromwell. In June 1912 he married an upstate New York girl named Janet Avery, soon afterward interrupted his law practice to work for the World War I Trade Board (poor eyesight kept him out of the military service). After the Armistice, Foster Dulles got a gleaming diplomatic opportunity. President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary...
...school's hero and his minister's pride. Even old Colonel Merriam, his father's boss, sees the boy's virtues, and it seems not unlikely that Philip will cut through social barriers and marry the old man's lovely, city-educated granddaughter. His valedictorian address is ready, full of noble sentiment, for his marks are the best in the senior class. Then comes the blow that tests him, his parents, and all the town...
...valedictorian complex," King suggested, is an example of another student problem--"ego identify." King claimed that the Freshman has to re-orient himself among students at least as capable as he, and in doing so is forced to re-evaluate his ideals and ambitions. Contact with members of differing social starta and intellectual ability, King said, also forces the Freshman to reconsider his "social acceptability...