Word: badgers
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...public trust, public universities are inevitably drawn into state politics. Legislators frequently badger university presidents to get rid of hippies, protesters and Communists. Former University of Missouri President Elmer Ellis recalls that for years he had to fight harder to get money because lawmakers complained about "all those Reds" on his faculty. All he had, argued Ellis, was one lone socialist-but the funds come easier now that the teacher has left to take a $4,500 raise at Wayne State University. Political considerations also kept the University of Massachusetts from putting its new medical school on either its Amherst...
...rapidly dawned on the demonstrators that it was cruel and pointless to harrass Leavitt. When one shouted amidst a volley of questions, "Don't badger him," the mood of the protesters literally shifted instantaneously to one of warmth and sympathy. Someone offered Leavitt a Harvard lunch bag, which he would accept only after it had been pushed at him several times. That ended a very distinct phase in the demonstration--the vent your Vietnam venom on Leavitt stage. Leavitt had personally proved to be a lousy symbol of the war machine...
...feudal fortress, it hunkers in a remote reclaimed Virginia swamp that used to be called Hell's Bottom, across the Potomac River from the spires, colonnades and domes of the federal city. Through its two tiers of subbasements and five aboveground stories, windowless corridors weave like badger warrens. The bastion of America's military establishment not only houses the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a mint of high brass, but is also a beehive of bureaucracy where some 10,800 civilians shuffle routinely through the daily load of paperwork. It is actually five giant...
...Rosenberg polemic. Invitation to an Inquest (Double-day). Part of that book was inspired by the fact that Sobell had not been specifically accused of helping the Rosenbergs tell the Russians how the 1945 Nagasaki A-bomb worked. Sobell's lesser crime was that he helped Julius Rosenberg badger a Navy Department engineer for classified antiaircraft and fire-control information. Even so, he was indicted with the Rosenbergs and duly convicted of engaging in the "single conspiracy" to spy for the Russians...
...theatrical grace is hard to come by at Harvard; its omission in the Lowell production is not a mortal sin. And one touch in Toad of Toad Hall would seem to show that God may be smiling on the play. When Mole enters Badger's digs she myopically surveys the huge Lowell House chandelier and murmurs an impressed, "Oh I say," After an infinitude of blithely ignorant House productions it is good to see a cast aware that a couple of tons of glass and wire may come plummeting down on them any minute...