Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first book, Tokugawa Religion, was based on his Harvard graduate dissertation for a joint degree in sociology and Far Eastern languages, and it is still in print more than 40 years later...
...coming for a while. When Barry Goldwater died Friday in his Arizona home at the age of 89, the Republican party to which he had devoted his political career -- the party that Goldwater had almost single-handedly transformed in the sixties from a stolid, moderate force dominated by the Eastern elite to a movement of crisp conservatism with a populist Southern and Western base -- was no longer recognizable...
...Goldwater, born in 1909, came by that conservatism naturally. His grandparents were Polish immigrants who came to America to escape anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe and then came to frontier Arizona to escape it in eastern America. Young Barry went to a military academy in Virginia for high school, and when his father died he dropped out of the University of Arizona to join the family department-store business. Goldwater was weaned on a conservatism that valued the abilities of the individual, not one's religion, race or sexual orientation. No matter what...
...Harvard heavies entered the Easterns as aNo. 2 seed in the Eastern crew coaches poll.Princeton was a strong favorite to win, featuringa boat loaded with probable U.S. National teamrowers...
...five major Eastern IntercollegiateTennis Association's individual awards, Harvardaffiliates took home four...