Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mentioned the possibility of New York's Mayor John Lindsay's being nominated as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1968. It seems inconceivable to me that the Republican Party would so honor a man who in his own campaign went to great lengths to shun the Republican label. While it is true that such men as Nelson Rockefeller and Charles Percy refused to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, these men disavowed a candidate, not the entire Republican Party. With so many other promising Republicans coming to the front of the political picture, the party will hardly...
...writing awards, the Swedish Academy frequently chooses in order to honor the giants of literature in the twilight of their careers. Asturias rep resents the other extreme-the choice of a worthy writer who might otherwise go largely unnoticed. Asturias feels he was picked also because he embodies a new irend in Latin American literature. "We have long had a tendency," he said last week, "of avoiding our problems, submerging them in romanticism and folklore. With me, the academy has selected the other tendency-that of involvement, confrontation and commitment...
...refuge for wealthy girls fleeing the crude gold-mining camp atmosphere of San Francisco, it later thrived on offering an exclusive Vassar-style education without the need for transcontinental travel. Today, Mills accents music, art, dance and drama, boasts some fine Victorian architecture, lets its girls enforce their own honor code in exams and conduct, and observes such quaint traditions as the seniors' tearful last tour of the campus by lantern light, pausing at sites they want to remember...
President Pusey said of the appointment, "It's an indication of great respect. The office is an honor to the dean and to Harvard...
...leeches!"). Nor does he discuss his espousal of such right-wing causes as the repeal of the income tax and U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. Captain Eddie, now 77, has been awarded 14 honorary doctorates and 55 major decorations for merit and bravery, including the Congressional Medal of Honor. Clearly he deserves another honor: a better biographer...