Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detlev Vagts '49, professor of Law and former president of Harvard's AAUP chapter said about half of the more than 400-member Faculty belong to the AAUP, but they have never felt the need for collective bargaining because of Harvard's system of de-centralized administration...
...sister work...I'm not doing it now because the time commitment was just too great...I have two part-time jobs, and I do House Committee and intramural sports, and if I didn't see my little sister at least once a week I felt I would be cheating her..." notes Linda Frescas...
...conflict between President Carter's apparent commitment to basic human rights (that had raised opposition hopes that the U.S. would pressure the Shah) and the administration's continued sale of weapons to the Iranian armed forces. When U.S. attempts to restrain the opposition's goals redoubled the anti-Americanism felt by the crowds of demonstrators, their hatred was that of moral outrage that the U.S. dared to think it had the right (though it clearly lacked the means) to intervene. Once the demonstrations reached full force, the single greatest force of anti-U.S. feeling was that feeling of moral...
...power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven, the boy felt the full force of his father's "exalted and dreamy temperament" and never forgot what it brought: misery, ruin and death. The lesson later pervaded his fiction. Men with no illusions are base, but those who have them are destroyers...
...Strachey, recalls the aphorist, once told him that Horace could not be a good poet because everything he wrote was a platitude. "This is the Romantic view of poetry, for in fact it requires a very great poet to make platitudes come alive, since they are sentiments we once felt but, through the dulling of our minds by habit, have ceased any longer to feel...