Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began with the familiar splendid pageantry: athletes in the uniforms of 37 nations marched past the box occupied by Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlager. Overhead, helicopters unfurled the Austrian, Olympic and Tyrolean flags. A three-gun howitzer salute preceded the lighting of the Olympic flame, symbol of the history and fellowship of the quadrennial games...
...Superstars like Austrian Downhill Winner Franz Klammer get asked for autographs by other athletes, and the Russian hockey players, who are years older than most of the competitors, are looked on with awe. For the rest, the comfort of familiar faces appears to mean more than opportunities for international fellowship. The Swedes, in their yellow and blue, do not blend at the same table with the Rumanians in red. Nor do Americans eat with Russians. In fact, U.S. figure skaters do not sit with the American bobsledders; American skiers do not even know the speed skaters. "I guess it seems...
...newly-opened awards, with a total endowment of $4.3 million, include the lucrative and prestigious Knox fellowship, but not the lucrative and prestigious Shaw or Fiske-De Jersey fellowships...
Dean Whitlock said yesterday that the decision allows Harvard administered fellowship committees to interpret the words :a man of Harvard College" in its generic sense...
...sets their teeth gnashing--is that those days were so recent. That's just the way it happens, for some people. Before he could hang up his mortarboard, Rich was writing an article about Daniel Ellsberg for Esquire magazine and getting ready to leave for Europe on a traveling fellowship. His classmate Michael Sacks, a Loebie whose performance in The Promise Rich remembers "liking," quickly starred in George Roy Hill's film of Slaughterhouse Five. Another classmate, Bonnie Raitt, didn't even wait to graduate--she kissed Harvard goodbye in 1970, her junior year...