Word: arenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginian. Nobody, he scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren't his fault," he allowed...
Newspaper editors have a fear that they aren't admired enough. John Hughes, who retired this month as editor of the Christian Science Monitor and last month completed a term as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, warned his colleagues in a farewell address that "our profession . . . isn't currently in high repute. The polls indicate that our credibility with the public is lower than that of many other professions." There are three things wrong with that statement. Newspaper editing isn't a profession, its public standing is about as high as it ever...
...girl says, "The kids whose parents are together will just say, 'Nah, my parents aren't like that.' Those kids aren't the kind who will listen. They will just tease and look at you funny." A boy earnestly explains: "Sometimes you are too scared to tell your friends. You might be ashamed." "Ashamed?" a counselor asks. A girl called Flora (the names of students are fictitious) stares at the floor and says, "Sometimes they say they are just going on a trip. I was upset. They lied." The point of this support group, the real...
...large department chairmen aren't alarmed about a drop in the quality of students. Raymond Siever, chairman of the Geology Department, a department that accepted more than the 25-per-cent figure, says that while GSAS will undoubtedly continue to accept only the best applicants, the school may be tempted to fill a larger percentage of its positions with students who don't need financial assistance from the school...
...close to power in government, corporations, law firms, big newspapers. But we were learning that there was no progress without courage and vision. I visited Harry S. Truman in Kansas City, to interview him for The Crimson. In 1948, we had been the only Massachusetts paper to support him. "Aren't you a funny magazine?" he asked. "No, we try to be serious," I answered. What did he think of President Eisenhower? "How can he let that bastard Joe McCarthy get away with destroying honest people," he said. "The one thing I can't forgive Ike for was that...