Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting hour, the galleries of the capacious old marble-and-leather chamber were bulging as the Senate gathered last week to vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth. Vice President Spiro Agnew arrived a full ten minutes early; the vote was expected to be close, and he could break a tie. As the clock on the Senate wall reached 1 p.m., the chamber hushed, and the roll call began. The outcome hung on the votes of seven uncommitted Senators, and everyone who had any business being there knew who they were. Nevada's Alan Bible, a Democrat...
Roger Thomas, a graduate student, adjourned the meeting near the end of its second hour. Thomas moved that the group make no resolution on the painters' helper issue because too few members of SFAC were present. At the close of the meeting, many of those who had been present at the beginning had left. Though SFAC has 38 members, the number present at any time never exceeded...
...game was not supposed to be close, but Harvard's defense decided to make it that way. On the first eight plays of the first quarter. Yale drove 50 yards to the Harvard 24, but then the defense stiffened...
...parody of Prufrock: "Today the women come and go Talking of T.S. Eliot." Jonathan Culler, in his introduction to the Centennial Anthology, described a magazine that had "stayed Georgian ten years too late during the poetic ferment of the twenties"; the poets who found themselves at Harvard after the close of World War II, nearly thirty years later, had no patience with these traditions. Led by William Carlos Williams, poets like Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and later Frank O'Hara argued over the conventions of American prosody, while Donald Hall insisted that Lowell and Wilbur had become "the poles of energy...
...write with no malice aforethought, but only with a sincere hope. Each fall, for close to eight years, I have been watching in the crowded vestibules of the Harvard Clubs of New York and Boston, Dillon Field House and Briggs Cage, John Yoviesin graciously shaking bands and flashing shiny white teeth at the alumni and overseers. Mr Yoviesin has been with Harvard these eight years, and even more, and I can only query...