Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee's Parkinsonian recommendation that yet another dean be appointed, which is the standard remedy of the unimaginative bureaucrat, not only stands as witness to the sterility of its discussions, but its members highlight the incompetence of their research by demonstrating quite clearly that they checked only faculty and student opinions and forgot to check out the teaching fellows themselves. The Committee is clearly unaware that major attractions of the job are the acceptance of responsibility, the opportunity to test one's own ideas and the chance to establish unstructured and informal support with students, all of which are more...
...everyone is turning into a rhinoceros. Jean (Herbert Voland) changes before Berenger's eyes, at first thinking he's sick, then talking the part of a rhino compassionately: "We should go back to nature. We need primeval integrity in this world!" Voland's blustering temper and bull-like charges highlight the production; one expects him to attack the audience, but he runs off to join the other pachyderms instead...
...park," he says. The only thing G.W. can't rule is his missus, Maureen O'Hara, who keeps bolting out of the herd and heading East, where she picks up the notion that she wants a divorce. Mesa Verde's social horizons seem limited, since the highlight of the season is apt to be a free-for-all that ends with half the territory slugging it out hip-deep in a mudhole...
...should get his first stiff test of the season when the Harvard runners face Cornell and Brown this Friday in a triangular meet. The highlight of the race should be the duel between Howlett and Machooka, but a Brown team that has the greater depth than Harvard or Cornell might well win the overall race...
...highlight of the Kennedy stay in Italy was an act that many politicians not long ago would have considered foolhardy for a Catholic President-a call on the new Pope. Kennedy bowed to Paul, shook hands (as a visiting head of state, he did not kneel and kiss the Pontiff's ring), and accompanied the Pope into his library for a private 18-minute chat, mostly about the quest for an enduring world peace. Addressing the Kennedy party later, the Pope recalled that he had met the President and his family at a papal audience 25 years ago, when...