Word: halcyons
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Last Spring, for example, the picture of a drunk and grinning Harvard sophomore, happily chewing away at a broken lightbulb, graced the Magazine's pages. Lightbulbeaters, we were told, were replacing left-wing activists as Big Men on Campus, and universities were rapidly returning to the halcyon days of a previous...
...appearances to the contrary, however, Herbert W. Kalmbach in those halcyon days was neither a political boss, a godfather of the Mafia nor the local bookie. He was President Nixon's personal lawyer and one of the best connections between California and power centers in Washington...
...Mayor of Oakland. At least half of New York City's Democratic Party coalesces around its official candidate for mayor. Rennie Davis makes speeches for the 15-year-old Perfect Master. The New York Yankees look as though they will win the pennant for the first time since the halcyon days of Lyndon Johnson. And the New York Mets--the team of the undaunted losers, of the underdog, the Viet Cong of organized baseball--are in last place, with half their players injured...
Several months ago, for example, the picture of a drunk and grinning Harvard sophomore, happily chewing away at a broken lightbulb, graced the Magazine's pages. Lightbulb-eaters, we were told, were replacing left-wing activists as Big Men on Campus, and universities were rapidly returning to the halcyon days of a previous...
Attendance at Memorial Church has dropped from the halcyon days of the fifties, when Sunday services drew crowds of 1000, triple their present attendance. Morning prayers, a tradition as old as the University, today attract 35 to 40 hardy souls--a far cry from the days when student attendance was compulsory...