Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goyette added that the preservation of an age and style mix in buildings "overtly symbolizes the stability of the University in society...
...edit the new Cambridge History of Modern China. Some say that Fairbank's editing of the extensive series, in addition to his writing one of the volumes himself, may take the professor the rest of his life. But the Fairbanks seem to have the gift of the East for age as well as wisdom. Fairbank's mother, who is over 100, is still living on her own in Washington. Future alumni reports from Fairbank will probably include not only news about the progress of his books and of his travels to Asia this September, but also reports on the practice...
...much higher rate of high school seniors accept places at Harvard than anywhere else. The College can ride the crest of its reputation for a while longer, it seems, because at the moment no one else is doing a better job of defining the meaning of education in our age. But one administrator admitted recently that it could be damaging to Harvard's current efforts if a charismatic educational leader emerged elsewhere--and that leader could emerge at any time...
Wald did not "prepare" for Harvard but came to the University after distinguishing himself as a researcher. He earned his B.S. degree at New York University in 1927 and received a Ph.D. at Columbia five years later. At the age of 27, on a fellowship in Europe the next year, Wald succeeded in isolating Vitamin A, which had just been discovered. He helped to complete the identification of the vitamin several months later...
...book quickly found its present publisher, Trilling's admirers feared that her work would be devalued by the brouhaha. They need not have worried. The critiques of Hellman's politics are appendices to a masterwork of social and literary criticism. Like Hellman, Trilling came of political age in the '30s, when, as she writes, "partisanship with or opposition to Communism made the great intellectual rift in this country." In those days people like Hellman were called Stalinists, though it was a term they would not have chosen for themselves. Hellman publicly supported Stalin's Great Purges...