Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, flatly disagreed with Conant's position. "Harvard should certainly not become a preparatory school for graduate school," Elder said...
...think the purpose of the College should be to train people for all matters and varieties of careers, whether in the Federal government, or as President of the United States, or as keeper of a zoo for rarefied animals," Elder said...
...observed that the College had already nearly reached the goal Conant outlined for it, and cited studies showing that more than 80 per cent of the members of recent Senior classes intended to go on to graduate schools. "In my opinion, this is too bad," Elder said...
...room is the property of two odd brothers. The elder (Robert Shaw) has been in a mental institution, and between long silences he constructs his thoughts with the meticulous intensity of a child building a tower of blocks; the younger (Alan Bates) is a tradesman who only occasionally visits the room. In a gesture of almost absent-minded Samaritanism, the elder brother invites an old tramp to share his quarters...
...paralyzed by failures of will and nerve, and the junk-cluttered room reflects that impasse. Yet, each of them nurses a delusionary hope that if he can take a certain first step in self-therapy, he can "get this place going," as the tramp caretaker puts it. The elder brother believes that his salvation lies in building a workshop in the yard, but he is finicky about using only "good wood," and he gets to a hardware store so belatedly that the jig saw he needs is "gone." The tramp plans to make a trip to a nearby town...