Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basically, Harvard opposes the bill because it threatens an administrative procedure dear to the University; one that enables candid and often pointed evaluation of a student's academic, emotional, political and, to an extent, social life here at Harvard--with accountability...
...Bunker, says the show's producer, Wolfgang Menge, is "more malicious, less human, more vulgar" than his American counterpart. The cocky, mustachioed Alfred was intended to be loathsome, and to impress his estimated 27 million viewers as such. Instead, his tirades have inspired a flood of laudatory mail: "Dear Herr Tetzlaff, you spoke right out of my heart," or "Keep on! You have millions of people on your side." Archie Bunker, when he first appeared, got his share of similar support, but-in the eyes of a critical national and foreign press, at least-Archie's popularity...
...have come through times of turmoil before," he said. "We haven't lost faith in our nation or our future. We still hold dear the basic principles of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. And despite our troubles, we have inherited the greatest most durable, and most nearly perfect form of government in the world...
...must have written Lanterns on the Levee knowing he would be perhaps the last person to set down on paper his kind of life and values. As a result the book reads like an elegant manifesto for the old South, including all of the things aristocratic Southerners once held dear. Percy begins the book with lengthy descriptions of the Mississippi Delta country he lived in, its people, and his relatives, as if he could not begin to describe himself until he had first described his setting and background...
...apart. Percy used to escape to Greece and Italy from time to time for spiritual revitalization, and towards the end of Lanterns he frequently drifts off into reveries that start in Greenville and end up on the slopes of Parnassus. The connection between reality and the ideas Percy holds dear becomes increasingly tenuous...