Word: boise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, in December 1970, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston, I lunched with Dr. Reddick and advised him of the department's eagerness to have him join us as a tenured professor. He indicated interest on condition that the University was serious about the Du...
Davis quoted from the black radical W.E.B. Du Bois, who had once written that the black parent who forced his youngsters into integrated schools-where they might be unfairly and inhumanly treated-was doing them no favor. Cannily mocking social scientists, he noted that "much of what is handed around...
A second trauma was his elder sister Rose's prefrontal lobotomy in 1938, one of the earliest performed in the U.S. In some fundamental way, Rose was Tennessee's muse, the "White Goddess," in Robert Graves' term, who inspired him to write. She, of course, is the...
A cynical Crimson writer noted with tongue in cheek last year that unless partisan onlookers with less at stake can scarcely refuse to pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to insure the survival and success of Harvard's football team." Seth...
In June he announced that the national government was not going to help build a planned freeway on the Left Bank. Because the government was putting up 40% of construction costs, the autoroute died on the drawing board. Then Giscard vetoed new high-rise apartments that were planned to replace...