Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spender claims that the conflict between this democratic ideal and the fact of the poet's insignificance and irrelevance in American society leaves him relatively impotent and foiled. "The authorities," he writes, "provide American writers with honor, money, flattery. The one thing they do not do is take their work seriously, because literature is not an influence within the area of public consideration and policy." The poet is left to communicate only with those who already agree...
...France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, newspaper reviews heralded the "young Americans" as a "vitally alive" and "smooth" chorus that, "gave new depth to a medieval choral art which in many ways is already dying." The reviews of their performance of contemporary American music (which they sang in Europe to honor the Bicentennial) were equally complimentary. Friday night the group, accompanied by a small orchestra, will plow through non-secular choral masterpieces of yet another period in a concert devoted entirely to Mozart works...
...some master scriptwriter had put it together once again for the United States. In the crisis of Watergate two years ago, Gerald Ford, without flair or ambition, had furnished what the nation needed-solidity, courage, common sense and honor. Ford's stewardship was a welcome change from the decade of disarray that began with the bullet that killed Kennedy. That he thought he should stay longer may have been Ford's biggest mistake. That another term, a prospect he had not considered when he first came to power, was more than the American people wanted to give...
LONGEST THESIS--The opening lines from Henry A. Kissinger's 1950 summa cum laude senior thesis--entitled "The Meaning of History (Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant)"--read as follows: "An Introduction to an undergraduate honor thesis may seem presumptuous, but I believe that its inordinate length and unorthodox method require an explanation...the length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started to work on the thesis. As it grew, I made several efforts to cut it down...
...Every original Widener Library brick remains intact. To honor Mrs. Widener's first request, the annex to Lamont Library was connected to Widener through a window, so as not to upset a brick...