Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herschbachs' most successful innovations has been the introduction of "Freshman Courtship Week," when the Freshmen are invited to Currier for an array of recruiting events. Last year, nearly 100 prospective Currier House sophomores showed up for events, such as a Masters' Open House, a dance, a volleyball game, two one-act plays and wide screen TV showings of videotaped movies. That all but four of the new sophomores put Currier down as one of the housing choices indicated the success of the week...
...courtship was brief and tumultuous. Not surprisingly, the marriage was on the rocks before it really got started. After eight days as president of the combined company formed by the merger of Allied Corp. and Bendix Corp., William Agee, 45, decided last week to resign, effective June 1. Reason: Allied Chairman Edward Hennessy would not give him major responsibilities. Said Agee...
While Caro explores every shred of evidence and exhausts every interview, Morris believes that biographers should keep out of places where they do not be long. Fascinated by T.R.'s courtship of his first wife, Alice Lee, detailed in the future President's diary, Morris nonetheless accepted Roosevelt's brief entry for the couple's wedding night: "Happiness is too sacred to write about." Although this may seem a bizarre attitude for a biographer, Morris is adamant: "If the subject doesn't want you in part of his life, you have no right to invade...
...officials are treating the slow courtship "with dignified calm," in the words of a U.S. official. Experts in Washington express confidence that enduring conflicts of interest, notably over Afghanistan and Kampuchea, will limit any new Sino-Soviet friendship. Says a U.S. analyst: "We don't really see these two agreeing on anything very significant. But we sure don't want them to, either." Even if the Soviets and the Chinese move closer, there will be plenty of warning. "The U.S. does not have to panic or go courting cravenly," says a U.S. diplomat. "We expect no dramatic changes...
...convey so many wide-ranging concepts, and many of them are not that simple so clearly and, at times humorously. In his discussion of the roots of language, he writes. "It is possible that some selection pressure for its emergence came from sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line got the girl. "But Konner does not just cite scores of scientists and theories to make his points, somehow Shakespeare. Henry James Wallace Stevens, U.S. Eliot, Dante, Marx, Engels, and others find their way into...