Word: grad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were two versions of the send-off Harry got on the day University regulations forced him to quit. One, expressed in vehement terms by Mrs. Ruth T. Brown, former Grad Center employee, asserted that "no one even shook his hand," and that his fellow workers were plenty unhappy about...
...some, it was the first trip to the new Graduate Center. "This is an entirely new world," muttered an old grad. The modern pictures in the Harkness Common drew the attention of the visitors, but so did the undersized bedrooms, the community bathrooms, and the compartmental plates...
These statements represent the culmination of a grad "Geneva spirit" just as much. Worse, in taking a poke at the Russians he has unnecessarily infuriated a nation whose friendship is crucial, thus making the Russian strategy doubly effective. It seems that Mr. Dulles has again cut off our national nose to spite our patriotic face. ual change in the policy of large labor groups. At the inception of the AFL, the organization steadfastly refused to take political action, relying mainly on building up the processes of collective bargaining. Founder Samuel Gompers warned the fledgling Federation that political action could prove...
...Late George Apley, whose narrator is the perfect embodiment of the kind of Harvard man that Marquand has been satirizing for the past twenty years, explores with amazingly sustained deadpan humor the narrow social sensibility that one usually associates with the "Old Grad" type. Clubs, the "Pudding," and afternoon tea at prominent Boston houses are the essential activities of George Apley at Harvard. With very minor variations, this type of society is the one that Marquand writes about when, as in Wickford Point and Sincerely, Willis Wayde, he turns specifically to Harvard. It would be silly to base a general...
...College, held a soldierly reunion this week in Lima with Venezuela's Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, one of his best students back in the early '40s. Pérez Jiménez revisited Peru with the prestige of an old grad who made good: he is the dictatorial President of Venezuela (TIME, Feb. 28). Host Odria greeted him with easy confidence: he is the dictatorial President of Peru...