Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next door is the domestic terminal of Olympic Airlines. Well, something has changed. The walls are plastered with posters and slogans. "Remember, where there is Communism, there is no Fatherland, Religion, Family, Honor." "The Revolution of April 21 is the continuation of the Battle of Marathon, of Salamis and Thermopylae." "Learn to listen well and for a long time, instead of speaking out of turn." I read incredulously. A few people look at me. I look at them. We all smile furtively...
Dickey expands on these ideas in short homilies on the "new morality": "You go to hear ministers in church and you have a feeling that you're listening to fossils. They talk about honor and chastity--who believes in those things anymore? We know the delights of the sexual relationship. . . . Nowadays if you want to f---somebody, you do, if he or she is willing. You just do it for whatever there can be for both of you. This is why The Scarlet Letter is so quaint to us--all that agitation about fornication...
...personal friendships that only a Namier could trace out, made it possible for private debate to continue. In private conversations some faculty members could say to old friends with very different views that the students who took part in the demonstration really deserved to be placed on an honor roll instead of being punished. These networks of personal connections, which fortunately included the students, provided the framework for marshaling opposing arguments and opposing constituencies. It was along these informal networks that the democratic process operated. Those who held strong opinions on either side seemed to realize that truculent public assertion...
...being given the award on the strength of Harvard's record of eight wins and one loss. The lone setback did not harm his chances for the honor, since it was to Princeton, a club outside New England...
...intelligence work along the Mexican border, he arrived the day the Japanese surrendered, and spent most of his time lecturing Mexican-American recruits on personal hygiene. After his discharge, he went to Yale, where he taught Spanish and toured with the debating team. Very large on campus (Torch Honor Society, Fence Club, Elizabethan Club, Skull and Bones), he became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his junior year and used its editorial column to disseminate his heterodox views...