Word: elders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following a request by the Masters, Dean Ford appointed the end hoc Faculty Committee, chaired by J. Peterson Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, early last fall...
Members of the Elder Committee included Walter Jackson Bate, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities; Frederick B. Deknatel, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts; Hershel C. Baker, professor of English; Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History; Laurence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France; and Elder...
...Instantly, the other ex-Prime Minister, grey-haired Harold Macmillan, was at his side, putting a steadying hand beneath Churchill's arm. Macmillan, now 70 and barely recovered from a serious prostate operation last fall, no longer carries himself with the ramrod posture of a Guardsman. Together, the elder statesmen walked slowly beneath Churchill Arch and into the members' lobby: two great national figures moving into the sunset glow of history...
Bundy was off on vacation in Antigua. The President now often turns for guidance to Elder Statesman Dean Acheson and such old cronies as Washington Lawyers Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford. He also consults regularly with the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which is comprised of a few top businessmen and several former Government officials...
While waiting for a break in the weather, as he puts it, Davies-played with uncluttered perception by Donald Pleasence-burrows into the refuge offered by a former mental patient (Robert Shaw), the elder of two misfit brothers. Shaw collects things-bales of newspapers, a disconnected faucet, a kitchen sink, a bud vase full of screws-and he speaks and moves with the stony detachment of a man who will never again disturb the balance of his uneasy truce with life. His goal is to build a workshed out back: "Then I'll be able...