Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical 1965 freshman: getting drunk on weekends, pulling all-nighters and cutting some classes, primarily to prove my independence from parental authority, partly to get the feel in my gut of a new kind of freedom. And now, I am as typical a 1969 senior: unhappy with the formal education of Harvard College, loathe to go to graduate school, totally uninterested in business, less concerned about a career than about a life, wanting to create and worrying whether I'm capable, wanting to help and wondering how I can. And always asking myself, if not worrying to myself, whether...
...tottering books high into Emerson 105, take a seat, and for three hours pull out one book from somewhere in the middle and then another, like the old table cloth trick, and then the bell rings and you drop all the books on the floor and so much for formal education until next year...
...Army contract was little more than a formality, since the arrangement for which it provided has already been in existence here for nearly fifty years. But what is interesting about it is the formal emphasis placed by the Army on the status of the ROTC unit within the University. Like the older Navy and Air Force agreements, the Army contract specifies repeatedly that the Department of Military Science is to be considered an integral part of the University, on full administrative parity with all other Harvard departments. The head of the Department is to be designated as a full professor...
...WBAI-FM, a Negro schoolteacher named Leslie Campbell recently read a poem dedicated to Albert Shanker, the Jewish president of the U.F.T. It began: "Hey, Jew boy, with that yarmulke on your head. /You pale-faced Jew boy?I wish you were dead." The teachers' union has filed a formal protest with the Federal Communications Commission...
...Allied Supreme Commander, he met Hitler's final desperate offensive in the Ardennes forest and bloodily threw it back. As young Eisenhower writes of what came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge, the reader almost hears the father's voice in the slightly formal prose relieved by occasional flashes of good humor...