Word: honored
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...King at the 2003 National Book Awards. I thought that was egregious. It rankled a bit that she should have told off Steve, and in effect dismissed him when he had just given this really great talk and the [National Book Foundation] had just given him a really serious honor. It was small-minded of Shirley Hazzard to object to his content...
...Columbus Day was made a national holiday in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904. John F. Kennedy ’40 revived it in 1963 to generate enthusiasm for space research with the proclamation: “we continue to honor Columbus’ daring as we search out the far reaches of space and of human possibility.” It is only in the past two decades that indigenous peoples and revisionist historians have objected to the celebration of Columbus Day, calling attention to the less-than-glorious eradication of the Indians that began when Columbus...
...cancer that took him from us is also the cancer that gave him to us,” said Isaacson. “There’s a profound emptiness, and not just in the room next to me.” A reception in Friedman’s honor will be held tomorrow from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Kirkland House Masters’ residence. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Classmates packed all three floors of the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum for the performance: a tradition that they started at the class’s 15th reunion to help honor musician Peter S. Ivers ’68, who had been murdered in March of that year...
...during the Second World War, he also repeatedly hinted that Hitler was not all bad: at one point he said that the Waffen S.S., the unit implicated in some of the worst crimes of the Holocaust, was "part of the Wehrmacht (German Army) and thus deserves all the honor and respect of the army in public life." In interviews, including with TIME, the blue-eyed lawyer adamantly denied any sympathy with Hitler's ideas and said that his comments had been taken out of context. But critics suspected him of consciously courting an older generation of ex- Nazis in Austria...