Word: harper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's students' spiritual search "looks like polytheism," that the young want "total access to all the gods of men." Now Miller, 38, is himself advocating a return to the gods, but not merely for the young. In a sketchy, exasperating but provocative book, The New Polytheism (Harper & Row; $4.95), he recommends that Western civilization return to the polytheism that attended its birth...
Somehow the lie about Harvard has developed over the past few years, possibly originating when Horovitz lived in Cambridge around 1960 as an "underground student." Both City College and his publisher, Harper & Row, thought Horovitz had gone here; Boston reviewers frequently mentioned Horovitz's Harvard affiliation in their reviews; and even Harvard professors thought that Horovitz had somehow slipped through without taking any writing courses. "He was one of our great misses," said Monroe Engel, lecturer on English, sorrowfully realizing that all talent is not developed in the Harvard classroom...
...individual tournaments, Dunster smashed runnerup Kirkland in fencing, 18-9. For Dunster, Jas Geisz captured first place in foil and seconds in both epee and sabre, while Arnold Aguilera took second place in foil. For Kirkland, Jim Gammill placed fifth in foil, Jim Nemiah first in epee and Richard Harper fourth in sabre...
...MATTHEWS 219 pages. Harper...
BEHIND HIS HOUSE, the Reverend Harper, a cracker-barrel oracle in the best tradition, has a little lean-to grocery. He is in his eighties and is well-known and respected for preaching at a different church each Sunday somewhere around the country. He is a type you have met before, in one account or another, or at least he seems to be. He is "always glad to talk to you;" he is full of wisdom...