Word: delphic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Varsity Hockey, 3 years; Delphic Club; Harvard Varsity Club; Harvard-Radcliffe Combined Charities, 3 years; Quincy House Athletics (Intramural); Hasty Pudding...
...vague in a Delphic way, and to some interpreters of the oracle it meant that De Gaulle, despite his decision to dismiss Pompidou, had actually settled on him as his successor in the presidency. Most people felt, however, that it was simply a case of an old man canning a younger potential rival who, in the words of one of Pompidou's aides, "had gotten too big too soon." Any doubt that Pompidou was sacked was more or less dispelled when Couve re appointed practically every Minister in the old Cabinet-an indication that De Gaulle wanted only...
Teacher-in-Chief. Nor is that all. Cornell Political Scientist Clinton Rossiter once noted that the President must also serve as a national "scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen [today, that would read 'TV tube'] and father of the multitudes." In addition, says Historian Sidney Hyman, he must possess "animal energy, a physical capacity for long and sustained attention to detail, the power to endure bores," as well as "a will to decide," and a "sense of tragedy" that results when men seek to do good, but inadvertently achieve evil ends...
Final Clubs: A.D. Club, The Bat Club, The Delphic Club, D.U. Club, Fly Club, Fox Club, Iroquois Club, Owl Club, Phoenix-S.K. Club Porcellian Club, the Spee Club...
...containing some ugly rich folk; the Porcellian Club the most prestigious, wealthy, and socially acceptable in Boston; the Spee Club and its Fred Roloff the most interesting and broad, but also sprinkled with dullards; the Owl Club the nest of Eastern preppies and athletes; the Phoenix Club, the Delphic Club, and the Fox Club not worth talking about except over drinks...