Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid the marriage-like pitfalls of quartet life, the players follow many of Sasha Schneider's helpful guidelines. They rarely socialize together during off hours; on tour, they try to avoid the same train or plane, and often stay in different hotels. They also divvy up business responsibilities: Steinhardt handles travel, Dalley is in charge of money, Soyer manages overseas tours, and Tree is the program chairman. "We're just like a corporation," says Steinhardt. "We work together, but must we play together?" When they try, it can cause trouble. Last year Steinhardt broke his own self-imposed...
...other hand, John Zink, Korczak Ziolkowski, Clint Wescott, and Jim West (to name a few) are truly eccentric. Surely none of these men are trying to convince anyone else of the advantages of their own particular ways of life. They are simply "people who consistently follow their own seemingly exotic standards" and are clearly not bidding for attention. Consideration must be given to the motives and methods of the individual in relation to existing social standards and how he wishes to affect them. If he wishes to affect them at all, he is not merely eccentric, but is in fact...
...Following Cleveland. The new President will not follow Buchanan; he is too energetic and committed for that. At the same time, he seems temperamentally incapable of the high-key style of a Lincoln or a Franklin Roosevelt, whose presidency, as Historian Clinton Rossiter notes, was characterized by "his airy eagerness to meet the age head-on." Instead, Nixon seems to view his office much as Cleveland did, and will probably work to push the country in the direction that he thinks it ought to go-with his foot poised between the brake and the accelerator...
...feel confident that upon a cease-fire you will prevail in the political struggle that will follow...
...would urge all members of the Class of '69 and all alumni who are similarly concerned with the Corporation's conduct in this matter to follow my example and inform the president and fellows, Massachusetts Hall, of their feelings in this simple, yet uniquely effective, way. Geoffrey H. Arnold...