Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brewster dramatized the point with an anecdote about "a student rebel friend" who, just before unleashing a torrent of rhetorical castigation, leaned over and whispered; "What I'm about to say isn't directed against you personally, Mr. Brewster; we know that you have to do and say the things you do because of your position." Recalled Brewster: "The sweetness of the charity did not offset the bitterness of the insult...
...contrast, the Yale president praised two idealists-New York Mayor John Lindsay and Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin-as alumni who have been "quite unabashed, wholly unashamed of their high purpose." He urged his audience to affirm five propositions that give the lie to the cynic: "We know that happiness is more than material wellbeing, that conscience is more than simple fear, that love is more than sex, that moral authority is more than political power, and that community is more than organization." As for himself, Brewster added, he will continue to draw on what is perhaps the most important...
...disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
...pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush and toothpaste, because you never know where you might spend the night...
...people who brought you the Beatles, miniskirts, Tom Jones, cashmere sweaters and Robin Hood want to invite you to get to know some of us better...