Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margaret writes in a letter: "What is it that we've injured or violated in each other? Have we found out things about each other that even the other doesn't know, or want to know, or to have known? Or are we full of fear and trembling before the final, entire, terrible nudity that real marriage requires...
...lesser-known privileges of being Mayor of a City (or a governor or President for that matter) is issuing proclamations. Under this practice, which dates back at least to Roman times, a public official issues a statement setting aside a day when the citizens in his jurisdiction will honor a particularly worthy cause...
Unfortunately, most proclamations are signed, passed on to the media, and then promptly put into what is generally known as the circular file. This is unfortunate, for proclamations contain some of the noblest prose and most heroic sentiments known to present-day man. An example is this proclamation issued last week in Cambridge of which, alas most Cambridgians have been thus far unaware...
Manoog S. Young, Chairman of the Board of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research said Armenian Studies will provide a better understanding of Mid-Eastern history. "Armenians have within them untapped primary sources, because they were known as the 'historians of the mid-east,' "he said...
...best known for his "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of the Harvard College Classes of 1690-1760," of which 11 volumes appeared between 1933 and 1968. His remark years ago that, "If I live to be 80, I can get to the class of 1800" still stands. He set out to portray these early Harvard men "warts and all," and he observed that "Those who were hanged are just as important as the ones ordained." Of one early graduate, he wrote, "Certainly he achieved no distinction at Harvard beyond that which resulted from his participation in disorders...