Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apocalyptic," provoking him to his deepest moments. Nearly 25 years ago, he wrote that "history has always seemed to me primarily an art, a branch of literature." Today his neatly combed hair mussed, his bow tie askew, as it were, he writes with a new passion, as a vigorous elder concerned that the earth survive for future generations. It is an irony that he would be the first to appreciate: when he sounds least like a liberal, he sounds most like a historian, and an artist...
...elder Dillon established two Kennedy School professorships in 1957, donated the Dillon Field House and gave the University great sums of money, the official said. The two posts he gave are the Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, held by Stanley Hoffman, and the Clarence Dillon Professorship of International Affairs, held by Joseph...
MacDonald, a junior, is the link between past greatness and an uncertain--but potentially ripe--future. He skated for two years with Fusco and Smith, two years older than he, and now will be the elder statesman of the new first line...
...April of 1984 the elder Goldfarb exchanged farewell presents with an American friend, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff. This led the KGB to ask Goldfarb to invite Daniloff to his apartment, apparently so agents could plant documents on the reporter. Unlike another Soviet acquaintance of Daniloff's, Goldfarb refused. The KGB then raided Goldfarb's apartment, seized his bacteria collection and accused him of planning to take material "of national security importance" out of the country...
...affiliates in the houses,' so pompously promoted for the 350th, is supposed to be an everyday occurrence. The fact that it takes a very special occasion indeed to bring Henry Rosovsky to Mather House offers an honest but ironic commentary on the distance between undergraduates and Harvard's elder elite...