Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of months ago, President Derek Bok and McLaughlin were engaged in deep conversation at a reception for Friends of Harvard Basketball. McLaughlin apologized for losing to Bok's alma mater (Stanford, 103-81). Bok, in the ineffable style that has become his trademark, just smiled and said essentially nothing of consequence...
Magritte died in 1967, aged 68, but his work continues to serve its modern audience rather as the sultans of Victorian academic painting, the Friths and Poynters and Alma-Tademas, served theirs a century ago-as storytellers. Modern art was supplied with mythmakers, from Picasso to Barnett Newman. But it had few masters of the narrative impulse, and Magritte, a stocky, taciturn Belgian, was its chief fabulist. His images were stories first, paintings second, but the stories were not narratives in the Victorian manner, or slices of life or tableaux of history. They were snapshots of the impossible, rendered...
Farley, who reportedly is under consideration for the coaching job at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, should perhaps consider changing occupations. The man who has guided the Tigers to a 79-21 record and six Eastern Seaboard Championships since taking over in 1971, could probably make a fortune as a seer or a mystic...
Just how much is the love of Harvard alumni for their alma mater worth? The University is betting it will be worth at least a quarter of a billion dollars over the next five years. Assuming the Corporation formally agrees--which now seems almost certain--Harvard will launch a five-year, $250-million fund drive some time this fall, a grand scheme that administrators hope will bolster Harvard's massive $1.4 billion endowment in the face of relentless inflation...
...plenty of examples seem to indicate that lack of trustworthiness in one area can carry over into others. When Jeanie Kasindorf, a writer for New West magazine, started investigating Columbia Pictures Chief David Begelman, she decided to query Yale, his alma mater, to follow up rumors of bad checks. Problem: Begelman had never attended Yale. Although Begelman was indicted for forgery and grand theft, the Hollywood types were more outraged that he had listed Yale in Who's Who. Apparently they figured that everybody steals money. Says Kasindorf: "It was the fact that he lied about Yale that drove...