Word: comments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president's Harvard comment, O'Callaghan added, the faculty can't stop talking about...
...st.John's faculty or officials could be reached for comment. But a White House spokesman said Friday that Reagan's comments were not intended to indicate that Harvard is too old, despite its 349 years, or any sort of anti-Harvard bias on the part of the Administration
...importance." This qualified apology sounds like a reply to her friend and rival Virginia Woolf, who in 1919 dismissed the novels of Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett: "They spend immense skill and immense industry making the trivial and the transitory appear the true and the enduring." Woolf's comment conveys an assuredness (this is trivial, that is transitory) that now seems sadly dated. West's wise record of small acts, daily tasks and obscure manners breathes with new life...
...example is a good one for other past Presidents to follow, but we need to make it law." A spokesman for Ford said the ex-President anticipates that he will follow Nixon's lead, but notes, "We won't be driven by Nixon's timing." Carter had no comment on Nixon's decision...
Representatives of the Cambridge Teachers Association could not be reached for comment yesterday...