Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people that you have heard today have given you historical background and yet many of them are social scientists, not primarily historians. We have found in working on contemporary China, for which you can get the larger funds for research, that inevitably you are drawn back--if you want to understand China--into developing historical perspective on your problem. This is true particularly in the Chinese case, and yet even a man trained in history like our colleague Franz Schurmann at Berkeley in his most recent book becomes remarkably unhistorical because he is being so brilliantly a social scientist...
McGlothlin's 1967 showing qualifies as a comeback-although he is only 23. When he was 18, Jim tried out with the Los Angeles Dodgers, struck out twelve of the 13 men he faced-and never heard from the Dodgers again. The Angels finally signed him for $5,000 (which he blew on a new car), and he trotted off to Illinois-Iowa's Quad-Cities Angels in the Class A Midwest League, where he won 13 games, lost five and posted an ERA of 2.79. After that, it was all downhill. Twice, the Angels called...
...legend -a prospect that Everson contemplates with regret. "Overadulation," he warns, "can often build up a wall of resentment against its objects, who are usually wholly innocent of any involvement in a cult movement, often dislike it, and usually refuse to take it seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell of a lot of fun." As Laurel liked to tell his disciples: "Don't sit around and tear comedy apart...
...violent madness; at 59, he died of heart failure. In a somewhat facile analysis, the biographer suggests that Sacher-Masoch's depravity may have been caused by a dominant mother, a dominant nursemaid and a dominant aunt. This could explain why he was so upset when he heard that Dr. Krafft-Ebing had singled him out for inclusion in his Psychopathia Sexualis and coined the term masochism. After all, Masoch was his mother's family name, and he was concerned that her feelings would be hurt. He would have
...group of 48 newspapermen here for a two-day seminar on Far Eastern affairs heard Fairbank speak. The seminar was organized by some Harvard graduate students for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations...