Word: dwight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Liberated from having to take his family on vacation wherever it would do him the most good electorally, President Clinton decided to go back to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where, as we used to say when Dwight D. Eisenhower was President, he can play golf with his rich friends...
...think because he is a consummate musician he has literally been able to hear and discover what is essential about what the next thing is," says Dwight D. Andrews, who taught Music 131: "History of Jazz." Andrews is the first to hold an associate visiting professorship sponsored by Quincy Jones...
Fraternization rules vary from service to service. An Army pamphlet states that "dating between soldiers of different rank is not harmful, and usually not improper." On the Navy's first coed carrier to include servicewomen, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, couples who confessed their love to the captain quietly received new assignments, without repercussion. The Air Force takes a different attitude. Although a manual allows that a marriage between an officer and enlisted person "is not, by itself evidence of misconduct," it reserves the right to take punitive action "based on prior fraternization...
Painting of Sun Valley, Idaho, by Dwight Eisenhower...
...recent years, Jones has also shown his commitment to Harvard. He recently gave a guest lecture in an Afro-American Studies class, and before that, played a key role in endowing the Quincy Jones visiting associate professorship of African-American Music that brought the popular Dwight D. Andrews of Emory University and his course Music 131: "History of Jazz" to Harvard students...