Word: dickinson
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...year for qualified applicants, and Knowles is said to be ecstatic over the idea. Much to Boston University's consternation, according to one source, he is reportedly holding their presidential search committee at bay while Harvard decides. Besides, Antioch College is running well under its doctor-president James Dickinson and another doctor, Calvin Plimpton just stepped down after a successful term at Amherst...
...DICKINSON COLLEGE Jay Saunders Redding, D.Lit., author. American life and letters have been enriched by your haunting theme of being Negro in America. You have revealed whites and blacks to each other as brothers...
They are; Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermoule. Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor; Lynn M. Riddleford, assistant professor of Biology; Caroline W. Bynum, assistant professor of History: Dudley R. Herschbach, professor of Chemistry; Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government; and Morton W. Bloomfield, professor of English...
...Destroyer. All the manufacturers of hypodermics have tried to supply their customers with easy ways of getting rid of the needles. One of the simplest: "Destructip," a 10? device for bending and breaking needles offered by Becton, Dickinson & Co. for individual users such as diabetics. For hospitals and doctors' offices, some manufacturers build a tip destroyer into the wall of the carton. Once the needle has been used, the nurse or technician inserts it in a metal slot in the side of the carton and bends it to break off the point...
Dickey approaches teaching with a combination of energy and detachment. His creative-writing students are advised to tune into their recalcitrant unconsciousness, or the "celestial wireless" as Dickey calls it. He recently hammered away at his modern-poetry students for most of an hour about Emily Dickinson's obsession with death. When not one of them could see that the house with "the cornice but a mound" in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" was a grave, he remained undepressed. The class left bright-eyed and exalted by his performance...