Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OONLY A PSYCHIATRIST can help poor Schoenberg now...He would do better to shovel snow instead of scribbling on music paper." So wrote Richard Strauss in a letter to Alma Mahler, voicing an opinion that is shared by most listeners today...
...fact, the only publication which has not received it seriously is my old alma mater, Newsweek," Karl says a little huffily. The Newsweek review, which did not mention Fleming's former connection with the magazine, called the book "about as interesting--and titillating--as a protracted Merv Griffin show: 319 pages that manage to take most of the joy out of voyeurism...
...Speaker, on a number of occasions I have been asked why I do not support my old alma mater, Harvard. The answer is simple. As an institution of higher learning it is dedicated to promoting ideas which are not objective but subjective, it is hopelessly liberal and has very little balance in political ideology, either on campus or in their speaker program...
...suddenly the Kennedy legacy had been altered. Two new sites at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and more prominently the UMass-Boston campus at Columbia Point on the ocean, emerged as complex contenders. Kennedy the scholar, inextricably linked for the last decade with his alma mater, was now Kennedy "the man of the sea" and Kennedy "the man of Massachusetts...
...skeptical. For Harvard alumni, equal access means that more women are going to be accommodated by the University; they're worried that this change will come at the expense of some alumni sons and athletes. For Radcliffe alumnae, equal access poses a serious threat for the survival of their alma mater: they are a major force in holding up merger as a result...