Word: bender
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This last happened during the 1950's, when dean of admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27, took a year's leave-of-absence and his position was temporarily filled by the Dean of the College, Delmar Leighton...
...treads and sprayed the enemy ranks with withering machine-gun fire. Hands popped from tank turrets and dropped grenades to blast off Viet Cong fighters who had swarmed over their steel shells. When the Viet Cong finally grasped what they were up against, they hastily retreated. "It was," exulted Bender, "just like the 10 o'clock show on TV: the U.S. Cavalry came riding to the rescue...
...clear from the start that the two will go on some sort of bender before the end ,(it's a beauty when it comes), but even before then Gabin and Belmondo have bounced their personalities off each other to fine effect. At one points the latently alcoholic Gabin and the actively drunk Belmondo compare the far-flung fantasies each has known while drunk. In doing so, they display both a humor and quiet intensity that rises from more than what they actually do or say. They ("the nobility of drunkards") share an understanding the audience is also allowed to comprehend...
Many of the folders which Glimp read had been drawn in by Bender's efforts to recruit in high schools and in regions where Harvard had never been very active, and to offer more financial aid there than Harvard had ever done before. They came from poorer urban neighborhoods, from foreign countries--and from the mid-West...
...Glimp had worked so hard and so well that there was no more logical successor to Dean Bender. "Everyone said that no one could take Bender's place," a colleague remembers. "Glimp...