Word: appleton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCarthy era. Derek C. Book, who will become Harvard's 25th president on Commencement day, will have to run a university with twice as many officers, half again as many students, and three times as much money as the one Pusey found when he returned to Cambridge from Appleton, Wisconsin...
Before becoming Harvard's President more than 17 years ago, Pusey served for nine years as president of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisc. His successor at Harvard will not be announced until Jan. 4 at the earliest...
Permit me to indulge in a retrospective glance for a moment. The first time Joseph McCarthy sought the nomination for the United States Senate he was defeated. This took place before the conclusion of World War II. After his initial failure-and after the war-he returned to Appleton to become a judge. A little later lawyers in the state tried unsuccessfully to have him disbarred because of his conduct on the bench...
...Harvard were made unnecessarily difficult by the ostensible campaign of hate he was then conducting against universities in general and Harvard in particular (primarily, I am certain, not so much because he disliked or distrusted universities, but for personally profitable political reasons). As long as I remained in Appleton he had taken no public notice of me. But when I came into the light of the Harvard presidency I was quickly numbered among his targets. It was a questionable accolade, but being familiar with the man and the game he was playing, I was not surprised...
...period of his rapid rise he told a friend of mine in Appleton that he had first glimpsed the secret of political success by reading Mein Kampf. Hitler's technique, he said, rested on the skillful use of the big lie. Tell a whopper and keep on repeating it. In time people will come to believe it. Joseph McCarthy's big whopper was that the communists had taken over the State Department. Hitler's big lie had been that the Jews had almost destroyed Germany...