Word: hap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planning students formed the Harvard Association of Planners (HAP) in March of 1967. They specifically wanted to gain representation on important faculty committees. It seemed clear that students could contribute to the Building Committee's planning for the Design School's new center. Students also wanted to be able to express their opinion on crucial curriculum and requirement changes which the Department often seemed to spring on them. A constitution for the group was approved by the planning students in March, a discussion series held by the HAP became a popular success, and Dean Sert granted permission for two students...
...knew the upper echelons of the Army like the back of his hand, and it was the back of his hand they sometimes got. When General "Hap" Arnold complained that the Air Force was not getting the large share of credit it claimed, Marshall told him pretty sharply to pipe down. Nor was he the man to ease the jolt when it came to jumping talent over seniority, as when Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower was promoted over numberless brigadiers. He kept a "little Black Book" for duds, and stars would never fall on those listed therein...
Horace Julian Bond is a young man who likes to speak his mind. As it hap pens, some of the things that Bond, 26, a Negro pacifist and civil rights worker, has on his mind -sympathy for draft-card burners and extreme opposition to the war in Viet Nam - proved highly unpalatable to the Georgia house of representatives. Twice this year house members voted against allowing him to sit among them as the duly elected member from Atlanta's 136th Legisla tive District...
...reflecting it and striking through it." Simone Weil, the lonely Jewish girl who turned into a Christian mystic, tells how the recitation of lines by George Herbert, such as, "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back," acted on her intuitive unconscious like prayer. "Then it hap pened," she recalled. "Christ himself came down, and he took...
...high-powered highbrows who have helped build Rand (for Research and Development), no one has been more effective than silver-haired, rough-featured Franklin R. Collbohm, 59, head of the organization since it was created under the patronage of Army Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold 20 years...