Word: honorability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champagne receptions, panels and parties for members of the class of 1899 through 1968 as well as the graduating seniors. Tomorrow the 50th reunion dinner for the class of 1919 will be held in Cabot Hall with Bernince Brown Cronkhitem, Dean of the Graduate School Emerita, as guest of honor...
...remains the most troublesome issue: Taiwan. Washington steadfastly maintains that it is committed to Chiang Kai-shek's government, and by implication to his claim that he still heads the Republic of China. The U.S. is indeed committed to Chiang's regime by ties of history and honor. But it need not and cannot much longer sustain the fiction that Taiwan is China...
...three performances were an unabashed triumph as well as a fitting tribute to one of the world's great musical theaters. "Paris, London, St. Petersburg and Milan all claim to have the best opera houses in the world," said Giuseppe Verdi in 1874. "Yet I would concede this honor only to Vienna...
...Dublin, behind the Shelbourne. "We said we hoped it was only a temporary aberration," Fielding says. At first furious, O'Sullivan took a second look and decided that the Guide was right. After an $850,000 renovation job, he threw a dinner in Fielding's honor and at toasting time told one and all: "This was one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me." (Says the '69 Guide: "Today the Gresham is just like home?only better...
...Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...