Word: eliotisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor. But to have it reach the proportions suggested in the recent investigations strikes deep at a moral core. Are the lines between right and wrong, the lines between power and impotence, between success and failure so blurred that any means justifies the end? The specter of T.S. Eliot's "hollow men" looms over our Bicentennial...
...once fled because the crowds emitted an odor that "was not that of incense," and that he eventually came to love both places; and how quite exquisitely appropriate that last week, finally, he was recognized with a marble plaque placed in the floor of Poets' Corner, near where Eliot and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are also memorialized, and reading simply:"Henry James. O.M./ for Order of Merit/ Novelist New York 1843. London...
...time to fill spending it. In short, you really couldn't have come to a better place. Gone is the Cambridge and the Harvard Square of the '50s and the first half of the '60s: Ye Olde College Shoppes with owners who knew the boys' names like an Eliot House Master, Harvard pennants on the wall, and fine wood interiors. Gone, too, are the head shops, clothes stores and coffeehouses of the late '60s and early '70s, and with them the hippie vendors in front of Holyoke Center, removed by University edict last year over some Bicentennial nonsense or other...
...fear of failure on Rosovsky's part; rather, a wariness about how future Samuel Eliot Morisons will treat his tenure as dean. Anyone in Rosovsky's position of power naturally will have these worries and vanities: he recently asked a Crimson reporter why The Crimson gave so much press to an affirmative action demonstration by 200 in the Yard but ran no story on The New York Times's editorial praise of his educational review. Rosovsky's concern is that history may not treat him so well--although he did balance the budget--both because the review...
...University. As he moves toward the end of his first decade in office Bok's ability to influence and inspire educators--something he has yet to do--may become the prime determinant of whether he is remembered as a caretaker president or as the heir to the Eliot-Lowell-Conant legacy.CrimsonSandy O. Steingard...