Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invariably as lively as they were cordial, and I recall no year in which he protested my eventual decisions; few Harvard men will attribute his silence to timidity. Moreover, each year I reported to the Faculty our use of unrestricted money for financial aid (a policy begun by Mr. Buck, against all tradition), and I do not recall that a single colleague ever "selfishly" protested those allocations. It does no service to Dean Bender's last report to set up a false issue of faculty selfishness on this point...
When he resigned in 1957, Wilson had served longer as Secretary of Defense than anyone else. In his efforts to get more bang for the buck, he had retarded the U.S. potential for fighting any kind of war, any place, any time. But he had effectively led the armed forces in their development of the strategic missiles necessary...
...more, timorous, Professor Paul H. Buck will serve up a worthy home fry of hominy and homily called History 165a: "History of the south, 1790-1865"; and Alfred Harbarge and Daniel Seltzer, Pied Pipers of Hamlet, will lead thespians and others back through the mists of Tudor and Stuart drama (Eng. 125). And, a final note of the abstruse, L. I. Rudolph, his Max Weber clutched in his hand, will explore the bureaucracies of modern and developing societies (Government 121), a topic covered more succintly by C. Northcote Parkinson...
...second term as state controller in 1958-and was the only Democrat to win statewide office in Nelson Rockefeller's Republican sweep. With that credential as a vote getter, and as a down-the-line party regular, Levitt was the organization leaders' logical choice to buck Wagner in the primary. Accepting the bosses' decision, Levitt amiably announced that he had received a popular "mandate." Where Wagner's platform style is spare and uninspired, Levitt's is florid and uninspired...
...second book, Homage to Blenholt, the least successful of the trio, is a bitter comedy around the funeral of Blenholt, the Commissioner of Sewers, whom young Max Balkan reveres as a man who made good. Max is an idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater...