Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on Thursday about the Faculty's withholding of the M.A. from Mr. Offner did not do justice to the injustice of the case, because you did not underscore the critical factor: Mr. Offner had long since completed requirements for that degree before last April. According to Dean Elder, he would in fact have received it had he applied for it in June 1967 or on four subsequent occasions...
When Offner's name was included in a list of degree candidates proposed by J. Peterson Elder, dean of the GSAS, Dean May is reported to have objected on the grounds that undergraduates under disciplinary sanctions who had completed their A. B. degree requirements have not been allowed to graduate...
...observed the revolving seasons more intently than the painter known to posterity as Pieter Bruegel the Elder. He died just 400 years ago in Brussels. His death was attended by due ceremony and the admiration of his peers. But few of them recognized that the world had lost its first major, and arguably the best, landscape painter in all history. Artists before him, in other centuries and other countries, came out of the countryside to paint vignettes of their memories, almost obsequiously, in the background of their portraits of princes or courtiers, martyrs or saints. Bruegel made the unprideful countryside...
...with an occasional dressing-down from his dad. Allen Ginsberg, 43, and his father Louis, 74, were doing one of their tandem poetry readings in Miami when Allen's pro-drug comments ("I am turned on more often than I watch television") drove the elder Ginsberg to prose. "Shame on you, Allen," he interrupted, pointing at his bushy-bearded boy. "You are the guru of the flower generation, and you keep telling them to smoke pot and use LSD, knowing they can get in trouble with the police. You set a bad example." Allen, for once, sat speechless...