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...buildings from different periods. And second, because of its architecture and location, the building is probably the most memorable land-mark on campus. "It's got soul," as one Radcliffe sophomore remarked, and, whatever the merit of this distinction, one does not like to eliminate Harvard's most prominent landmark...
Mankiewicz, who describes the study as a "landmark" in community development research, points out that the 50 Volunteers who were the principal subjects of the study were among the first Peace Corps community development workers...
...balanced approach won considerable nationwide support, including a comment from Dwight Eisenhower that he "unquestionably has made the right decision." There was, however, no letup in congressional criticism. Chief among the sharpshooters was Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who floor-managed the landmark congressional resolution in 1964 by which the President has authority to take "all necessary steps" to resist aggression in Southeast Asia. Fulbright now confesses that he played "a part that I am not at all proud of at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin. That would have been...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
...could not find one of Amsterdam's citations, an unruffled Amsterdam suggested: "Your Honor, your book must be misbound." It was. In New Orleans last winter, he flipped through the apparently hopeless appeal of a Mississippi Negro accused of possessing whisky, and turned the case into a legal landmark-the first federal court decision extending the Sixth Amendment right to counsel from felony cases to misdemeanors (TIME...