Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(Mr. Osborne is widely regarded as a deplorable cynic and naysayer, but in Cliff, who plays a wise, calm, and modest Horatio to Jimmy's Hamlet, he has created a character who must be unique in modern drama: a handsome young man who lives with a married couple, tied to...
But quite a different approach is that of David Reisman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and his associates. They tend to see the Program as an opportunity for true "experiments"--for trying something without precedent in previous Harvard experience. Their plans diverge from those of other workshop-leaders...
In most of his political speeches, Quincy showed himself to be an arch-conservative. He protested vigorously against the formation of new states in the Louisiana Purchase territory, deeming it unconstitutional. "By this act Jefferson unsettled and spread the whole foundations of the Union, as established by the original Constitution...
Entering Harvard at 14, he followed the regular curriculum: "a little Latin and less Greek, and not much mathematics, with a sprinkling of rhetoric, logic, metaphysics, and ethics." At his graduation in 1790, he delivered the English Oration, highest academic honor in the class. His moral character, according to testimony...
By 1822, the town of Boston had reached 40,000 in population, and the town fathers felt the need to establish a city form of government. Again Quincy's personal tenets conflicted with those of the majority; he felt the "pure democracy of the town meeting more suited to the...