Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesinger retired in 1954 after 42 years of active teaching--30 years at Harvard--and thinks he had taught "long enough." He had been looking forward to the time when he could concentrate all his energy on writing...
...What do emeritus professors do? They lie in the sun and drink." Thus retired member of the faculty jokingly described his occupation as he thumbed through the galley proofs of his recently completed book. The jest was obvious. Many people who look forward to retirement from the business world desire a period of inactivity, and a life of comfortable leisure. This, for the most part, is not true in the academic world...
...notes, were agreed on one thing: that East and West would disagree, but not disastrously -and pass the buck up to Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Macmillan and De Gaulle. If Geneva ended that way, many would say a plague on both your houses, and assume that each side had only put forward what it knew the other would reject...
...opening speech made clear that there would be a summit conference afterward if "constructive proposals" were made. He affirmed that "the U.S. is in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements." After the three other ministers and representatives of the two Germanys made speeches, Christian Herter proceeded to put forward the West's "package" plan...
...Harvard undergraduates who have responded to the Brigade's advertisement yesterday voiced mixed reactions to the plan. At least two said they were ready to go, though with a few reservations: "I don't look forward to putting my life in the hands of these guys who seem to be crackpots...