Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Room audience composed mostly of Vieit Nam vets, including Muller, Carter said that "the nation is ready to change its heart, its mind and its attitude about the men who had fought in the war.'' After admitting that not enough has been done "to respect, honor, recognize and reward [your] special heroism," the President said: "We love you for what you were and what you stood for-and we love you for what you are and what you stand...
Contemplating the rest of Mama is like reading a casualty list. At 76, Richard Rodgers is presumably too old to retire, and only he can tarnish his own honor. In recent years he has given us such faded flowers of his once gorgeous talent as Two by Two and Rex. None of the songs in this show need to be pressed in anyone's memory book. As for the lyrics of Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel, they are, in Hamlet's words, weary, stale, flat and unprofitable...
...creative imprint on the cityscape, many of the nation's top architectural firms have joined the movement to preserve and refit. Three years ago, for the first time, the venerable American Institute of Architects gave official recognition to their work by allotting four of its coveted annual Honor Awards to renovation projects, several of them quite modest. This week at its convention in Kansas City, no fewer than six of the 15 A.I.A. awards will go to recycled buildings...
...involved compromise on both sides, with the students sacrificing more of their original demands. The students had wanted the school to renounce its agreement on the library's dedication with the Engelhard Roundation and to return the money. The foundation had wanted the K-School library to stand in honor of Charles Engelhard. However, it offered to modify its original request, and accepted instead a plaque stating the library was given in Engelhard's memory. John Huyler Jr., a K-School student committee member, praised the foundation for its flexibility and strength in the face of allegations both "inherently offensive...
However, the compromise retains the foundation's initial objective, what Allison describes as "the public expression of what was privately expressed--gratitude and public recognition that the library is given in honor of Engelhard. "I have always been happy to make just that," Allison adds. But he worries that the resolution is vulnerable to misinterpretation. Allison cautions the community to remember that the name of the library wasn't dropped since the library had never officially been named after Engelhard...