Word: balliol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From your Essay I have absorbed more real philosophy than I acquired during my years at Balliol...
Kenneth Keniston was a student teacher at Harvard from 1947 to with two years off for a Rhodes scholarship at Balliol. His career here was capped by a study of thirty-odd Harvard undergraduates showing various degrees of alienation, designed to find out "how they came to be alienated and what it is about our school that alienates them." In The Uncommitted, the book that issued from this study, Keniston supplies both the questions and the answers...
...lies with the Continent. Born on the Kentish coast within sight of "the mainland," as he calls Europe, Heath showed such early promise that he won a grant to Chatham House, a school at nearby Ramsgate. His flair for music got him the organ scholarship to Oxford's Balliol College, and music remains his only real passion outside politics. A Steinway piano, much used, adorns his bachelor quarters in London's elegant 18th century Albany apartments. At Oxford, Teddy (he has since dropped the dy) was president of the Union (the debating society) and the young Conservatives...
Died. Joshua Macmillan, 20, grandson of Britain's retired Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a second-year student at Oxford's brainy Balliol College; from an apparent overdose of drugs; two days after returning from a Madrid vacation with his fiancée, Kara Yatsevitch, 18, daughter of an American diplomat stationed in Spain; in his room at Oxford...
...Rocky Graziano, displaying a container of Breakstone Cultured Yoghurt, says, "Ya wanna be helty, goils?" All they have to do, he says, is eat the cultured yoghurt. He eats some himself. The next line he delivers has intonations so cultured that it might have been rehearsed at Brasenose or Balliol. "Breakstone is the more cultured yoghurt," he says beautifully...