Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been extolling the virtues of the global economy; and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, one of the first social scientists to identify the serious, long-term costs of divorce...
...recipient of this honor, Bailyn joins intellectual luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman and Toni Morrison, all of whom were chosen to deliver past Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities
...Barbara Grossman, a past Bunting Fellow, drama professor at Tufts and a member of the National Council on the Arts, said she was "struck by [Smith's] willingness to use herself, her body and her passion, as the bridge to touch us, to move us and to galvanize us into action...
...Eighty percent of what was in my [1995] bill was in the Barbara Jordan report," he said, referring to the commission on immigration chaired by the late Democrat from Texas, the first black woman to serve in the House of Representatives from the deep South...
Former neighbor Barbara Moline sees Seed in a different light. "He started conversations by telling you he deserved to be a Nobel prizewinner," she remembers. He was always dreaming up new crusades, she says. A few years ago, Seed invited Moline to invest $75,000 in his project to cure AIDS. Last summer he asked if the church could donate space to help support his cloning research. For Seed, Moline believes, cloning represents a "last, desperate attempt to become rich and famous. He wanted to make it big, but he never...