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...years later, TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell pursued the same subject in a personal chat, asking: "Why not go back to practicing law and make a bundle like Tom Dewey and Richard Nixon when they were out of office?" Wallace thought for a moment. "Naw, I'm not interested in law, and I guess I wouldn't be much good at it any more." Well, why not run for aging John Sparkman's Alabama Senate seat in 1978? "Naw, I don't want to go to Washington to sit in the Senate." Surely there must...
THERE ARE NO Spiro Pavlovich jokes in this year's Law School musical. The omission is surprising, since every other injoke that could possibly be included in a show intended for Law School audiences is played to the hilt. If you don't know the difference between Dewey, Bushby, Ballantine, Palmer and Wood and Cravath, Swaine and Moore, or the personal characteristics of the school's better-known professors, it probably isn't worth going to Laws...
Economist Thorstein Veblen, Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey founded it in a few Manhattan brownstones. Their aim: enlivening traditional learning. From the start, they succeeded. In the 1920s, the school offered the first college-level courses on black culture, taught by W.E.B. DuBois; in the '30s Martha Graham taught pioneering classes in modern dance...
...Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...
Along with polygamy, the church's prohibition against African blacks holding the priesthood (which men can hold after age 12) has grown into a central Mormon issue in Cambridge and the East. The doctrine causes few problems in the lily-white far west; Larry Dewey say the only black he had talked to before he came to Harvard was a halfback for nearby Borah High. But mention of the ban brings stories of blacks who broke off friendships because of the prohibition, although this is not always true: Carlyn Christensen '74 roomed with a black woman sophomore year...