Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, the Alumni Association-approved slate for the Overseers this year includes several high-profile candidates--such as Labor Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk '60 and actor John A. Lithgow...
Baker, of course, practices the art of deflation for a living, and he repeatedly reminds us that Lucy Elizabeth must share the credit and the blame. "I was happy to get your letter, especially the news that someone else has noted your writing ability," she remarks after learning of her son's job opportunity at the Times. No matter that his abilities had already earned him big-league distinction in Europe; Mother Baker thought the offer was just the break he needed...
...begins The Good Times, the second installment of Baker's memoirs. The first, Growing Up (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize, stayed on best-seller lists for nearly a year, and remains a masterstroke of unpretentious autobiography. It too got its direction from the character of Lucy Elizabeth Baker, the needy young widow whose platitudes about hard work and gumption herded Russell and his sister through the Great Depression...
...author's nights to remember are less dramatic. Recalling his marathon coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Baker downplays the pageantry in favor of offstage vignettes, like long lines of colonial potentates in animal skins and gold braid forming to use Westminster Abbey's toilets. The Eisenhower White House produces little excitement, partly because there wasn't much, but mainly because Press Secretary James Hagerty ran a "tight, tight ship." Later there was the smothering style of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "For you, Russ, I'd leak like a sieve...
...ELIZABETH C. AGASSIZ (1879-1903)--The "Harvard Annex" is established in a house on Appian Way to provide women with access to a Harvard education. Private arrangements are made with members of the Harvard faculty to teach women students. It is later incoporated as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. In 1894, Radcliffe College is officially established, named in honor of Ann Radcliffe, whose gift of œ100 in 1643 established Harvard's first scholarship fund...