Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last page dazed, dazzled and without an apartment but wholly in love with Italy. Author Malamud's deft hand slips occasionally, as in The Lady of the Lake, an oddly unconvincing tale about a Jew who denies his Jewishness, and in Angel Levine, a heavily symbolic account of a Negro angel that is not as rewarding as the old Jewish joke on which it is based...
...Crimson golf team, in good form and high in confidence after a double win over Columbia and Penn last Saturday, will meet the perennially strong Yale varsity this afternoon at New Haven. Coach Cooney Weiland said last night, "The squad has an excellent chance to give a very good account of itself...
...brother of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, has been a vice president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat-footed by rejoining McCann-Erickson, from which he resigned as executive vice president 14 months ago. Returning as a director, senior vice president and member of the operations committee, Foote will concentrate on creative advertising and marketing. ¶Robert Paxton, 56, was elected president...
Traditions have a way of springing up suddenly, asserting their antiquity, and going unquestioned. Some of the earliest accounts of confetti battles refer to them as "traditional." Somebody had to throw the first handful of confetti, but who ever it was remains unknown. There are theories, of course, which account for the origin of the confetti battle. Some claim it originated when Tree Day rites were in fact Tree Day riots; others maintain that; pre-game rallies generated confetti throwing...
...there and have it continue vigorous among Harvard men would be like clipping a few inches off the whiskers of a tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact. And the temper of the sectarian tiger is anything but wholesome now on account of the fear-inspired gloom and emotionalism of current theology...