Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of Divinity School students has begun a campaign asking that the University reverse its plans to build a new dormitory, Rockefeller Hall, at the School...
...SENTENCING Carl D. Offner to a year in prison for allegedly shoving Dean Watson during the seizure of University Hall, Judge Edward M. Viola has again demonstrated that people who commit offenses involving Harvard University must expect biased and vicious treatment in Cambridge's courts...
...itself, which produced the extraordinarily harsh penalty. After the Commonwealth had recommended a sentence of six months for the assault and battery conviction, Viola gratuitously doubled the sentence for no apparent reason other than his own outrage at the act and, apparently, at the seizure of University Hall itself. Had Offner shoved a fellow student in the way that he is alleged to have shoved Watson, Viola would never have entertained any notion of sending him to jail for a year: it is therefore clear that Viola's sentence was politically rather than judicially motivated...
...army comrades were about to invade Czechoslovakia, Grigorenko paid a call at the Czechoslovak embassy to advertise his approval of the Dubček liberalization program. At the funeral of Writer Aleksei Kosterin (TIME, Nov. 22), a longtime friend, he turned his eulogy at Moscow's crematory hall into an eloquent attack on "totalitarianism that hides behind the master of so-called Soviet democracy...
...likely one would be that Lowry, who was somewhat brash and arrogant in manner, had managed to antagonize either an influential senior curator or official, or some trustees, or a combination of all three. Perhaps some petty incident triggered the downfall, some minor outrage in a sculpture gallery or hall...