Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good to be back," exclaimed the most famous member of the Yale Law School class of 1941. Visiting the university campus on a three-day Chubb Fellowship, Gerald Ford talked with students about politics and public affairs. One of his regrets as President, he said, was his refusal to meet exiled Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in July 1975, a decision that he maintained was a matter of "logistics" rather than policy. Ford emotionally embraced retired Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, 74, who in 1935 hired Ford as his $2,400-a-year assistant, thereby enabling him to study law. Football...
...epigrams: "Yet, Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold...
...diversity, a mood of good fellowship seemed to prevail. Said one celebrated Atlantan, Baseball Slugger Hank Aaron, on Inauguration Eve: "Tomorrow at noon, the war between the North and the South is truly over." Remarked British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Ramsbotham on viewing his first Inauguration: "There is a great feeling of reconciliation. Such extraordinary good humor...
Like Perelman, he is antic, satirical and civilized. At commencement time, college graduates are traditionally welcomed into "the fellowship of educated men." Tom Stoppard uncondescendingly treats all playgoers as part of that fellowship. T.E. Kalem
Around holiday season, stocking-stuffer items like The Slipper and the Rose usually show up, all covered in glitter and good will. These gaudy little baubles are easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...