Word: hollomon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next three year's choices--University of Oklahoma president J. Herbert Hollomon and writers Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wicker--ranged from inoffensive to creditable, with even more commendable choices, such as Madame Binh of Paris Peace Talks fame, who finished seventh in 1973, garnering some student support. In 1973, the first year that Allen passed up his chance, the Class committee came up with playwright Arthur Miller as the next best thing. Miller accepted, and as if to disprove Death of a Salesman's thesis that "attention must be paid," he read from his introduction to Garage Sale, a collection...
...Herbert Hollomon, speaking as Guest Speaker, said that "even if Vietnam should disappear tomorrow, student protest would continue...
...rebellion is against the rationalization of the world, against the scientism," he said Hollomon is a former executive for General Electric and former assistant Secretary of Commerce under Kennedy and Johnson...
...Washington. Hollomon said, that he began to see the failure in his world view. "I lost myself in the drive for unreasoned progress." he said. "Even my sons thought that I was cruel and removed from them...
...speakers included Reswell B. Perkins '47, a vice-president of the Harvard Alumni, James M. Fallows '70, Class Orator, Frederic L. Grandy '70, Ivy Orator, and J. Herbert Hollomon, president of the University of Oklahoma...