Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair face the requisite, serious kind of interview questions. The two, who co-wrote and co-directed Larry's latest film, politely respond with the requisite, serious kind of interview answers. Except that it was all in mocking tones. Chapman, asked to describe Guterman, replies: "Once in an atomic age a true genius passes through Harvard's gates. Larry encompasses the diversity of Harvard within itself...
After all what in this day and age does it mean to be a Southerner? Poor Roony Lee, Robert E. Lee's son, who suffered Henry Adams' acute description, completed his Harvard career three years before the Civil War broke out. It was a time when what it meant to be a Southerner was all too clear. Quentin Compson, who went to Harvard just before World War I, was so distressed by the Southern ghosts tugging at him in these northern climes that he killed himself by leaping off the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...number" coming out of MIT at the age 27,the noted Black conservative was courted byseveral schools before he accepted an assistantprofessorship at Northwestern University'seconomics department, said Robert Eisner, chairmanof the department at the time...
...long ago, important American graphic design was thought to occur exclusively in New York City. But San Francisco, for one, has been changing that. Starting about 20 years ago, a new generation of designers came of age in the Bay Area, formally trained but unconventional by temperament. At the same time, decoration became fashionable again, modernist doctrine loosened, and a sort of regional self-infatuation overtook the arts. Baby-boomer entrepreneurs, with their hip clothing companies, upscale shops and software firms, became prime graphic-design clients. By the early 1980s the most talented of the San Francisco designers were creating...
After a career of nearly 30 years as one of the nation's leading pediatric surgeons, Dr. C. Everett Koop was nearing retirement age in the mid-1970s when he decided that the fight against abortion was as important as the effort to save lives on the operating table. A devout evangelical Christian, Koop poured out his prolife passions in two books, five educational films and a nationwide lecture tour. His style of argument was anything but dispassionate: in one film segment, Koop looked over a sea of naked dolls symbolizing aborted fetuses, and proclaimed, "I am standing...