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Word: cynics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They say that Harvard is a sheltered community. Inside the gates of Harvard Yard one finds the disillusioned cynic who sees no purpose within the American system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Mayor' Cohen of Harvard Square Marks His 25th Year of Business | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

They say that Harvard is a sheltered community. Inside the gates of Harvard Yard one finds the disillusioned cynic who sees no purpose within the American system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cohen's Twenty-Fifth Year Is Golden | 8/1/1972 | See Source »

...looked like effective officers. "He wanted a division. I wanted a squad," is the way one of them explained their motives. Through the use of a series of "tapes" that make up the final report to the commissioner Mills is able to do the police in different voices: the cynic, the "book" man, the black who thinks of himself as "Negro," the Chief Inspector with a limited supply of courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black and White | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

Porter was a cynic at heart, a believer in the good life who didn't find it all that good, but still preferred it to anything conventional...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Cole Porter Redivivus | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

Deusenberry, a former economic adviser under Johnson, also stated that "Only a terrible cynic can operate an incomes policy, because there's no way to do it equitably." He said the Wage-Price Control Board "was worthwhile...but it only makes sense as an emergency measure. We have to think that some form of intervention may turn out to be a permanent way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Economists Discuss Nixon Controls | 11/4/1971 | See Source »

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