Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Steiner agrees with Kriss, saying, "There certainly was heavy outwardly-directed political activity, but inward-directed pressures to change the University were much less." Steiner should know--he has handled student protests at Harvard as general counsel to the University and chief aide to President...
Well, you know I love my baby, I'll never...
...Buck, the Provost, and Nathan M. Pusey '28, who became president. Buck called me into his office in 1953 when the issue was firing a tenured professor for his communist affiliation. "Stay here until I come back," he said, "I am going to see the Corporation. I don't know if I can defend this person. I don't even like him, but if we don't support Wendell Furry now, we won't be able to defend Arthur Schlesinger tomorrow. If they don't agree with me, they will have my resignation...
...much from poetic passion as from the disciplined play of science. John Finley became the sulking Achilles and wily Odysseus on the state of Sanders Theatre while Anna Freud Coolly described our unconscious lust on the third floor of Emerson Hall. Archibald MacLeish, zen-like, trying to "know" an apple balanced James Watson's discovery of the double helix. Clyde Kluckholn's exploration of Navaho culture and psyche challenged Wassily Leontieff's analysis of economic inputs and outputs...
Once again the National Transportation Safety Board dispatched a skilled accident investigation team to determine precisely what had happened. They first wanted to know why that engine had broken away from the plane. The most obvious possibility was that it had ingested a flock of birds or airport debris and thus exploded. This had happened to another DC-10 and its General Electric engine (the CF6) on takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport in 1975, when a number of seagulls had been caught in its internal blades. But the crew was able to abort the takeoff without injury...