Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IMPORTANT to distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the low-rise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
...Memorial Church Crisis was a simple affair, really. In 1957, a Jewish couple requested permission to be married, by a rabbi, in the University's interdenominational Church. The request was denied, and Pusey explained the denial by proposing the thesis that Harvard was not, strictly speaking, interdenominational, but interdenominational-Christian. Under immense pressure from every quarter, the Corporation was compelled to retract the stand, and open the Church to all comers...
...more serious level, there was something of a genteel attack on anti-Semitism in the air-particularly after the Gilbert-Poor Affair in which two freshmen, victimized by townies because one of the two was a Jew, received a column and a half of attention in Time magazine, but only one inch in the Service News. Similarly, when F. O. Mathiessen, professor of American Literature, submitted a review of "Strange Fruit," a 1943 novel on racism, to the News, he was forced to run it as a letter because of the editors' fears of potential editorializing. So clearly the times...
...bread and cereals from their wartime menus, has also exhibited a corresponding practicality in its plans for the week's festivities. This year, the traditional reunion hat is a baseball cap, so that classmates can still wear it to the ball park or the golf course when the whole affair is over. And the Harvard emblem has been stitched on extra lightly so that it need not permanently brand its wearer...
...Retreat. He almost certainly will. The Army is still stinging from charges that it made a scapegoat of Calley. It would leave itself open to a charge of whitewashing if it dropped the Donaldson affair without a trial. Besides, the man behind the investigation is General William Westmoreland; the flinty Chief of Staff has announced that "the system is on trial." Brigadier General Samuel Koster, Americal Division commander at the time of My Lai, has already been reduced to his present rank on Westmoreland's recommendation. Many ranking officers are up in arms over Westmoreland's inquisition. Says...