Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instructors "the only major area still without a Faculty expert will be African linguistics..." Professor Rudolph further expresses his doubts that in this day and age of developing nations whose languages remain largely unknown to the outside world, scholarship can best be served "by appointments in ancient languages only." I should like to make two brief comments on these statements...
...party did not need. In a reply, the government-sponsored weekly Kultura maintained that in Poland there is no place for books or plays "whose ideological or moral content is antisocialist." Siding firmly with Socrates' accusers, the magazine pointed out that freedoms have been curbed ever since the ancient Greeks-"and so it is with...
Cross Campus, and the bells in Harkness Tower pealed traditional Yale tunes (sample: Down the Field). Parading back to cavernous Woolsey Hall, Brewster received the ancient symbols of presidential office: the 1701 manuscript of the original Yale Charter, the school seal of 1722, and the brass keys to the university. Windup of the weekend was a grand ball at the turtle-shaped Ingalls hockey rink, where guests, faculty and the presidential couple sipped punch and danced the night away as two bands played music to be inaugurated...
Rain spurred the ancient Greeks to sacrifice and prayer, the Indians to dance. Even today, poets find eternity in a single drop. Only women regard the heavens with a cold eye and sight catastrophe in the smallest cloud. No blessing to them, rain is a personal assault on hair and clothes, feet and face, makeup and morale, for which there is no adequate protection. Noah, at least...
...Although it has pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to one of the lesser price-fixing charges handed down in the same investigation, U.S. Steel denied the latest accusations, planned to plead not guilty at this week's arraignment. Bethlehem also issued a denial, countercharged the trustbusters with disinterring "ancient history" and "harassing" the steelmen. Many executives viewed the indictment as the latest phase in what they deem to be a continuing vendetta against steel led by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. But they absolved Lyndon Johnson of any blame, on the grounds that the charges did not originate...