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...ripe age of 35. Derek C. Bok and Summers, who became president at the ages of 40 and 46 respectively. Faust is 59 and, like Neil L. Rudenstine—the first man since before World War I to be chosen president while in his 50s??she will not occupy Mass. Hall for a 20-year tenure.The last two presidents—Summers and Rudenstine—came from outside of Harvard, but both had deep ties to the University, where they spent years as graduate students. Neither Cech, Etchemendy, nor Richard studied or taught here...
...Avakian does in his memoir “From Ike to Mao and Beyond.” As you may have deduced from the title, the book traces Avakian’s transformation from an unenlightened bourgeois child—a product of those stiflingly conformist ’50s??to a revolutionary Maoist...
...described, simply as “depressed,” literally dozens of times by an uncharacteristically unimaginative Wolfe. Charlotte also mentally appeals innumerable times to “Mama,” her mother back in Sparta, a maternal figure straight out of the ’50s??the 1850s...
HIGH NOON. Part of the Brattle’s “Films of the ’50s?? series, High Noon (1952) is a classic Western justice film directed by Fred Zinnemann. Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is ready to retire and leave town to spend the rest of his life with his wife Amy (Grace Kelly). But Kane’s intentions are delayed when he receives news that a deadly outlaw he sent to prison is due to arrive on the noon train. Everyone knows the outlaw has come to seek revenge on the sheriff...
...group volunteered to investigate the issue and, five years later, reported that their examination of tenure statistics had found little improvement since the ’50s??and a lack of well-publicized information—according to CEWH Co-Chair Alice “Acey” Welch...
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