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...crime punishable by death in the U.S. Asked what he would do with Jessup if he were in charge, McCarthy has a simple answer: "Fire him." When he met Acheson in a Senate elevator, Joe grinned, introduced himself, and shook hands as if the meeting were a cordial encounter between rival baseball managers...
Despite the administration's cordial attitude toward the rapidly-growing school in New Haven, individual Harvard graduates were apt to be a bit contemptuous of Yale. Peter Thatcher 1704 had a son twice refused for admittance by Harvard, and then wrote a friend that "I might send him to Yale, which takes many inferior scholars." Jacob Eliot 1720, lived near New Haven and once visited a Yale Commencement. It was, he bitterly wrote to a friend. "Dull, dull, dull...
Today, now that the issue has simmered down, Finkelstein feels that perhaps he was mistaken, and that the State of Israel may turn out to be a good thing, after all. Relations between the seminary and Israel are now cordial, and Finkelstein will do his best to keep them...
...years ago, the BBC's Third Programme was damned with faint praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
...long, long time after its formal chartering of Radcliffe in 1894, Harvard was generally cordial but distant. The attitude of most men was not so much one of scorn, but of (and we blush to use the word) indifference. In 1908 The Harvard Illustrated News (which was edited by H.V. Kaltenborn '09) ran an article entitled "Radcliffe on Harvard" which indicates attitudes then prevalent on both sides of the Common. The article, by an anonymous Radcliffe undergraduate, said in part...