Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 40 per cent of the class participated in the four-year pledge that totals $78,523. The money, which goes into an account established last year so senior men and women could by-pass the Harvard and Radcliffe College Funds to give a joint gift to the College, goes directly to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences unrestricted budget...
...mile itinerary, the ex-Secretary traveled to distant provinces along China's northern and western frontiers, including Tibet, which no American is known to have visited in 26 years. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, one of three U.S. journalists on tour with Schlesinger, filed this account of the journey...
Putnam said that Harvard has out-performed every major institutional account in the country, including Princeton and the Ford Foundation, by investing in the bond market...
Most of the characters presented in the book have spent the last ten years floating, drifting from occupation to avocation, experimenting with drugs, religions, relationships. By their own account of their lives, few of them displayed any sense of purpose during the first five or six years after high school, although some now seem to be taking their lives in hand. A few of the class followed traditional routes, but they stand out as oddities in a group that has obviously rejected their parents' lifestyles...
Perhaps the saddest account is that of Brock Chester, voted most popular member of his senior class. Chester committed suicide at 24, with no explanation, no warning. Medved and Wallechinsky interviewed his mother and his high school girl friend, trying to fathom his motive; the conclusion they reach, that he could neither live up to his popularity in school or accept his post-graduation anonymity, is couched in his mother's words, making it a lot more palatable than a slick judgment on someone the authors barely knew could have been. The episode may substantiate Medved's idea that Palisades...