Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downstairs, one of the natty Reaganite interlopers, Howard Phillips '62, beckons me over to talk. Phillips, a bright and articulate man who helped found the Young Americans for Freedom shortly after leaving Harvard, is a former director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. He claims to have convinced Nixon to dismantle OEO but became disenchanted upon discovering that the Administration was not as committed as he to ending such federal programs. Phillips believes that federal funds are presently being used for welfare rights organizations, gay liberation, rent strikes and so forth. Most Americans are "common sense, non-ideological conservatives...
...throngs, was empty of traffic except for a line of diplomatic cars. Dominating the scene were two giant black-and-gold-draped portraits of the Chairman. Chinese mourners, forming a silent wave of gray and blue, slowly climbed the broad steps leading into the Great Hall, moving from the bright afternoon sunlight beneath the twelve massive concrete columns and the army guard at the black-bordered entrance...
...mourners and the tomblike coolness of the air-conditioned hall. The chamber was filled with row upon row of white mourning wreaths. At the end of a red carpet 50 yards ahead of us stood Mao's funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait of the Chairman. A white-lettered streamer read, "We mourn with deepest grief the great leader and teacher, Chairman...
...community, you ought to lead with your strongest suit, and we think that is a program with access to libraries and facilities," she adds. The Institute has asked institutions to nominate faculty for the program, in addition to accepting direct applications; and this request has succeeded in bringing both bright faculty women to the notice of the school and, also bringing the notion of fellowships to the notice of many untenured men and women...
...responsibility for the defense rests with slightly built goalkeeper Fred Herold. As a sophomore last year, Herold emerged from nowhere to stand out in the nets almost as much as his bright shock of red hair stands out in a crowd. Herold registered an 83.7 per cent blocked shots average under often intense pressure last season...