Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resultant navy has many strengths and a compensating pool of weaknesses. One of its strong points is that, in the event of hostilities, it would not have to protect any sea lines of communication because the U.S.S.R. is self-sufficient in a high proportion of strategic materials, and its people, as a senior Soviet general recently said to me, "can live off cabbages-and we grow good cabbages...
...Copey was not content with the shaking-up Frankfurter gave us. We were full of the case but not quite prepared for Copey's next staged event. Several weeks later, Copey ushered in Robert C. Benchley (Class of '12), who wrote themes for Copey many years before. Benchley, a great writer of humor, began dead-pan to read from the latest work of Donald Ogden Stewart, a fellow practitioner. In high dudgeon, Copey broke in, and said, "No, no not that. We don't have to hear the words of a Yale man. You know perfectly well why I brought...
...exams fall exactly in the weeks of the Cup series. State-run retail enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...this and other uprisings aroused hopes among prisoners that resistance to the regime would spread out side the camps. Instead, change was ordered from above. In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev set out to disband most of the slave labor camps and release millions of prisoners. Solzhenitsyn hardly mentions this fateful event, stressing instead the legal, institutional and spiritual heritage of Stalinism in the present...
...developments that took place, but for the first time a note of personal passion and conviction appears. The attitude of moral outrage which Pusey adopted during the student outbreaks in 1969, his indignation that "Harvard men" could act in such a way, continues even nine years after the event. If the '50s were a "scoundrel" time in American history, Pusey considers in the student rebellion in the late 1960s even more reprehensible...