Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gard Wiggins, administrative vicepresident, said yesterday that a report the architects, the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot, is expected in several weeks. Shepley-Bulfinch is the same firm that designed Leverett Towers and the new section of Quincy House...
Callaghan sat down to a silent House of Commons, which had expected harsh measures, but instead found them merely bewildering. Commented the London Times: "There was even an air of disappointment, as though the Commons were flagellants who had just had their whips confiscated by a benevolent abbot." Next day the critics were heard from. Businessmen predicted that the payroll tax would drive up the cost of living. Union leaders predicted that the bonus to manufacturers would increase the already serious problem of labor hoarding. The influential Economist simply dubbed the budget "fatheaded...
During the discussions with Rudolph, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 read a letter from Howard Mumford Jones, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, complaining that the fading of "No Parking" signs on Francis Ave. had resulted in the continual clogging of his driveway there...
Public Warning. Success has won Opus many enemies. It is attacked by old-guard Falangists as "liberal," by campus radicals as "reactionary," by labor leaders as an "economic elite." It is often accused of plotting to seize power after Franco dies, and Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel, abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Franco's Valley of the Fallen civil-war monument, recently warned it in a newspaper article to stop "playing politics...
...Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march - or at least a people which is packing its bags for a pilgrimage...