Word: herbert
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...Herbert S. Hughes ’52, formerly of Kirkland House, could not attend the event but was represented by his daughter, Amy S. Hughes ’78. And William M. Simmons ’52, once a Winthrop House resident, was also represented by his brother, Tom Simmons...
...hurry. Rumsfeld ran for Congress in 1962 and arrived in Washington at the age of 30, during President Kennedy's last year in office. He was marqueed from the start, one of several Young Turks in the House that included Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush. Rumsfeld organized his pals into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan era, he maintained a close friendship...
Based on the Farnum Lectures she delivered at Princeton in 2003, “Invisible Listeners” is built around three essays on three very different poets—George Herbert, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery—who, Vendler argues, share a common desire to find companionship or hold colloquy with some fundamentally inaccessible “other...
Vendler describes how Herbert, through various formal inventions and the creation of unique dramatic situations—for instance, in which the speaker is placed in dialogue, with Jesus himself—is able to create a hypothetical space of intimacy with God, without the distances imposed by contemporary social life or the conventional constraints of the Catholic church...
Marlin Fitzwater, the curmudgeonly and wise press secretary to George Herbert Walker Bush and before that, Ronald Reagan, liked to say there are two kinds of truth: the kind you read in a book - and the kind any fool...