Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night, Mr. Gordone said to me, "People don't make money on love." My embarassment was shrouded with the realization of his words. Indeed, future lectures are threatened if we cannot pay for a favor--a two-day favor at that. The knowledge gained from Mr. Gordone was priceless and $100 could not begin to pay for that. He told us to forget about it, talked for three more hours, and at the end of the night, he asked us to send him a Harvard t-shirt for a souvenir...
Spender abandoned an older conception of the poet as "a kind of shadowy prophet behind the throne of power" in favor of a new idea of the poet as translator of a world which men have created around themselves through actions of the will. "I believed now," writes Spender in his autobiography World Within World, "that everything which men make and invent is to some degree a symbol of an inner state of consciousness within them...Poetry was a use of language which revealed external actuality as symbolic inner consciousness." Intrigued by the kind of hard, clear imagery that...
...report Rosovsky outlines the basis for the need to reform undergraduate education, noting correctly that many facets of the program, especially the Gen. Ed. requirements, seem to have little meaning or purpose. His call for a "constructive debate on the issues, not merely a battle between those who favor the status quo and those who oppose it," is a welcome one. Considering the unnecessary wariness and pettiness of the Harvard faculty and the opposition it has expressed not only to specific changes but to the discussion of important issues of education in general, such a call is extremely important...
Student objections to the CRR centered around its composition (weighted in favor of the Faculty), its procedures (which allow hearsay evidence against students and lets the CRR deny students the right to counsel), the vague definition of offenses for which students can be prosecuted, and the lack of a separate appeals board...
Died. Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti, 79, Brazil's premier painter; following surgery; in Rio de Janeiro. Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...