Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the supporting players, Louis Nye earns laughs as a bearded, way-out artist with an eye for the fast buck. "My stuff goes for 500 clams, but it's got a 1,000% profit potential," he says. Nye rides around on his latest masterwork aboard a kid's tricycle with a dribbling container of paint suspended over each wheel. Nye tells a visitor: "If you're going to walk on my canvas, the least you can do is put a little crimson on your soles." Pretty funny. But when all's said and done...
Unfortunately, Mr. Buck stems to have missed the point. Failing utterly to see the great need which his admirable system has answered, he has concluded that Harvard students, well known for their obsession with academics, require protection from the misdirected impuises of out defined by the survey as not in possession of Cards. This is an intriguing basis on which to measure the purity of students academic intention: It is certainly the first time I have heard such a peculiar power bestowed upon that -looking plastic card...
...Paul H. Buck, Carl H. Pforzhelmer University Professor: This man was a student and a friend of mine. I fully believe the stature of a man in the White House, as ultimately judged by historians, depends on what he did to build or destroy the faith on which men live. John F. Kennedy was working to convince people that American democracy was worth fighting for and saving. The haters killed him. I hope that from his death will come a reaffirmation of his faith, so that he shall not have died in vain...
Tuesday night's action was the first of its kind in Widener's history. It came less than a week after Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library, complained that "we are being crowded out of the Widener reading room by people who do not belong there...
Then the roof fell in. Brown took to the airways, and marched down the field, finally scoring on a short buck. With fumbles and interceptions plaguing the Yardlings, Brown got possession of the ball and took the lead on a 30-yard pass play in the waning moments of the antepenultimate stanza...