Word: hoar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Senator (Republican) named George F. Hoar arrived at that triumphantly self-satisfied formula toward the end of the 19th century. The delineation suggests what political parties used to be in the U.S. The labels were, for one thing, descriptive: a man who called himself a Democrat embraced impulses, assumptions, leaders and even a culture very different from those of the man who called himself a Republican. The political parties functioned in a sense like secular churches, with doctrines and powers of intercession, with saints, rites, duties, disciplines and rewards. From wards to White House, the parties were crucial...
...HOAR, LEONARD--This president of Harvard from 1672-1675 is often said to be the only former president of Harvard without a House named after him. This is a misconception. Although Hoar House never found its way onto the Harvard map, neither did Conant or Pusey Houses, which would have honored two much more illustrious college presidents...
...major graphic artists in Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift assemblies of images, and his rest less improvisation tested the limits of defining a print. The latest result includes some of the most remark able graphic images made by a liv ing artist: Rausehenberg's Hoar frost suite, including Mule (see color page...
...stars shone bright above the sun, The air was cold and hoar...
Charles M. Hoar, professor of Law, said that some of the professors are helping Kennedy by "preparing background materials on important issues." Many of them, he said, are old friends and associates of the Kennedys...