Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meetings, the entire staff meets for the second rung of the process: the targets are thrown out and each case is presented by the chairman of the applicant's regional group. The committee may spend anywhere from a few seconds on an applicant with a six profile to an hour and forty-five minutes on a really tough...
...Coffee hour with Joel Porte, professor of English. A caveat--along with the free coffee may be an unprecedented amount of brown-nosing. Porte is an expert on Emerson and Thoreau so expect the ubiquitous ego-deflating frosh to be in attendance, mouthing quotes from The American Scholar or Civil Disobedience...
...Coffee hour with Bernard Bailyn. Actually, this meeting has potential. Once again, if you are willing to brave the onslaught of people who think they know more about the American Revolution than Bailyn, you may be able to find out why some groups are paying upwards of $1000 a night to hear this man pontificate. He's very topical with the Bicentennial crowds...
Washington's most erudite young writer, George Will, pronounced it a "tremendous summer." His two children got the chicken pox, and he explored a whole new field of community relations as the bug spread in his neighborhood. But there probably was no finer hour, he claims, than the August morning when he walked out his front door and declared his lawn "a wilderness area" to be left untouched for the remainder of the season. "My contribution to conservation," he explained...
...that exchange indicates, Nixon still persists in evading questions about the scandal that drove him from office. The occasion was the giving of a six-hour deposition by Nixon in San Clemente on July 25. This was part of a lawsuit in which he is challenging the constitutionality of a law passed last December that made his White House files, containing some 42 million documents and secret tape recordings, the property of the Federal Government. For six hours, Nixon was interrogated by ten attorneys who are contesting his suit. Among them were lawyers representing Watergate Special Prosecutor Henry Ruth...