Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take a number of forms: a mutual reduction of military activity, simultaneous pullback of North Vietnamese and American forces, a compromise on one or more of the outstanding political issues. Reasonable as that hope sounds, the reality seems to be far more stark. Unless Ho Chi Minh's death causes a North Vietnamese policy change that is not yet apparent and does not seem likely, Nixon's announced goal of "a peace we can be proud of" is no closer than it was when the Administration took office in January. Rather, Nixon may have to face the fact...
...fact, Glimp said, he had decided to accept the charity fund post-vacated by the sudden death of Wilbur J. Bender 27, a former dean of the College and Glimp's mentor at Harvard-on the morning of April 9. Less than two hours after he returned to his Harvard office that morning he was ejected from it by the first wave of students occupying University Hall...
...need to tell you why I left the radicals-politics is always a consideration of marginal differences, of weighing gains and losses, of technicalities. At least, so I now say to myself, having then determined not to act. Besides, radical politics on campus have been written to death...
...manuscripts were being kept in Widener Library in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A Jackson, curator or the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library the temperature would be a minimum of 85 causing a dreadful degree of dryness for the books...
...York and quickly told me how crummy the New York school system was. I am from Boston, so I quickly told Jed how crummy the Boston school system is. And from that we got into a discussion about how crummy education in general is. I mentioned Jonathon Kozol (whose Death at an Early Age was just appearing in the Atlantic ) and Jed mentioned Peter Schragg and both of us felt vaguely impressed with the other, although, most of all, we were each gratified with ourselves. (Since all this time the shower was still struggling to warm itself, I guess Nathan...