Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintained three standards: first, a teacher must be able to instruct and investigate without pressure or censorship, whether subtle or otherwise, from Harvard's officialdom; second, no decision involving official action on a man's career should in any way depend on the politics and publicity generated in Washington, Beacon Hill, or elsewhere; and lastly, no special conditions, other than those involving fitness to teach, should be created for members of the faculty because teachers should have precisely the same rights as are common to all Americans...
...play called My Brother's Keeper which had for its dramatic finale an identical GCA landing of a Marine night fighter in Korea. This was not a coincidence, for the play had been written by Captain Hill, who was an actor (Walk East on Beacon) in civilian life. Hill also got leave from his Marine base at Edenton. N.C., to play the part of a newspaper correspondent (the only non-Marine role in the 20-man cast) in his own real-life drama, which happened last fall...
Somehow the Brahmins of Beacon Hill who run this place seem to have been particularly adept at picking Presidents in the past; why not give them another chance? H. E. Heinemann...
...morning after the election, a big sign hung from a second-floor balcony at Joy and Mt. Vernon Streets, on Boston's Beacon Hill, said: "Thank God." It seemed to express more than merely one voter's gratitude that his candidate had come in. The trappings of the campaign having been laid away, the nation had quietly made its great decision. Bitterness and disagreement did not disappear, but there was a better chance for unity than in many years, and great cause for hope. Meanwhile, the U.S. went on living its life as usual-strange, wonderful, and wonderfully...
...stand. Documented proof that we were really interested in the people directly affected would disguise the fact that, no matter how we felt about that, oil was more important. And what simple denunciation of our policy would have the force of this cartoon? from The Herblock Book, Beacon Press...