Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward P. Atkinson '71 is a freelance carpenter, working on renovating an apartment building he owns in Boston's South End. "I don't have any fond memories of Harvard. It was a mistake for me to have gone there. I did some work in Visual Studies but I couldn't do anything because the professors were more concerned with their outside work...
...most prevalent type of academic dishonesty, however, is plagiarism. As U.C.L.A. Dean of Students Byron H. Atkinson notes, plagiarism "has always been something in the scholarly ethic that transcends rape and murder." Harvard students talk of the undergraduate who made five copies of a friend's paper on "The Nature of War," used it unchanged in five courses ranging from Sociology to Morals, and got grades...
...could have recognized, back in May of 1960, such a hardy long-distance runner? Certainly not the critics. Walter Kerr, writing in the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, thought the show "a little less than satisfactory," and the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it "the sort of thing that loses magic the longer it endures...
...former fashion model, an author (Amazon Odyssey), and a radical feminist who collected as much as $ 1,500 per speech on the lecture circuit. Ti-Graee Atkinson, 37, is something more. "I'm broke," she announced last week, after receiving her first New York City welfare check. The reason? Those well-paying speaking engagements have apparently gone the way of student sit-ins and antiwar marches. She had applied for menial jobs, too, she noted, "But people say I'm too old or too famous or too hot to handle." Atkinson, who has delivered plenty of barbs...
...asking for even higher wage settlements, the most astronomical being the National Union of Seamen's demand for an 81% increase. The knee-jerk cycle continued last week as an incensed Healey threatened to levy still more taxes-a move that provoked left-wing Labor M.P. Norman Atkinson to call publicly for new party leadership...