Word: joustings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your commendable "peaceful revolutionary" from Brown, Ira Magaziner [July 4], may have some difficulty if he plans to "joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College." He had better be prepared for a group of dons whose social, economic and academic perspectives easily match the boldness of his own ideas. The doctoral program Magaziner will follow, supposedly so traditional, can be a study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design...
Magaziner, who wrote his senior honors thesis on "The Decline of Metaphysical Religion and Values in the West," is now preparing to joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College. They expect him to follow a traditional doctoral program; he wants a sweeping, cross-disciplinary plan of his own design. Having already shaken up a 200-year-old university, Magaziner is not much intimidated by one that is three times older. Meantime, back at Brown, his impact can be measured by a widely quoted campus graffito: "Ira, please see me-God." "You come...
...owners [June 21]. I have seen firearms used for good (yes, even against fellow man), as well as for evil; but I have not as yet laid blame (or credit) to the gun. It is interesting to ponder if the emotion of the moment will bring on a joust with windmills, and whether the result will provide a catharsis for the guilt complex of a nation in turmoil...
Nixon learned other lessons from his joust with John Kennedy, and he is cannily applying them to his primary battles against Michigan's George Romney. The former Vice President's campaign to date in New Hampshire and Wisconsin has been relaxed and understated, designed to encourage the image of Nixon as statesman. Ironically, Nixon believes that in the popular memory he has somehow acquired a Kennedyesque patina simply because they opposed each other in 1960. He is right about some of the patina, of course: he has a new TV makeup...
...tender moment it no doubt was, but it still looked an awful lot like a corporate merger. Flanked by His-and-Hers lawyers, Playboy Huntington Hartford, 56, and Third Wife Diane, 25, announced that they have reconciled after a four-month international joust that included a well-publicized dalliance between Diane and Singer Bobby Darin. The bill for the resumed cooing came high, but Hartford gamely anted up a $1,500,000 trust fund for Diane's unborn child, expected in June...