Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Jeff McConnell '75. What Jeff wanted was time--time to think, time to read, most importantly, time to write. Even though he'd done well in high school--fourth in his class, newspaper editor--high school activities didn't seem quite as important as the time he spent on his writing, working at his own rate. When he came to Harvard four years ago, he failed Expository Writing...
...they went to Marxist analysis and decided that the problem is capitalist oppression. For a solution of its ills, they went to Christian thought and Scriptures and concluded that Christians have a spiritual mandate to struggle on the side of the downtrodden. Jesus himself, they point out, citing the fourth chapter of Luke, declared early in his public life that he had come "to preach good news to the poor . . . to proclaim release to the captives . . . to set at liberty those who are oppressed...
...gathered in Yorktown. Edgar Bronfman was firmly in charge. Flying back to be at his side was his former wife of some 20 years, Ann Loeb Bronfman, who had divorced him in 1973. Also present were three of their five children: Holly, 18, Matthew, 16, and Adam, 12. The fourth, Edgar Jr., 20, joined the family temporarily, then moved into his father's Fifth Avenue apartment to follow events from there. All through Saturday, there was no word from the kidnapers...
...Democratic critics, lately have been voicing a new optimism that the recovery, far from getting off to the sputtering start widely feared a few months ago, is advancing at a healthy clip that should send production up at about a 7% to 8% rate in both the third and fourth quarters. The biggest reason is a predicted tapering off of business inventory cutting. In addition, the statistics-except for those concerning inflation-have been good: unemployment fell from a peak of 9.2% in May to 8.4% in July, and the index of leading indicators in the second quarter registered...
...many alumni, a week or so on campus offers the advantage of a relatively inexpensive vacation with a chance to learn something. Curtis Reis, 41, a vice president of Banker's Trust Co. in Manhattan, attended his fourth alumni college at Cornell last month. Says he: "It is a tremendous combination of a vacation and a different kind of intellectual experience, an exposure to good minds and a chance to explore subjects you can't in the normal course of life." Alfred Moellering, 48, a judge in Fort Wayne, Ind., his wife and two children enrolled...