Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his meeting with Haldeman, his mind cleared, Mee closes the book by pulling two appropriate tales from his past. One involves a happy day of love-making sometime in the late '60s--plucked out of the past to provide a relief from the tension that had been building in the book. And the last few pages relate an encounter Mee had with Arnold Toynbee, the British historian, in the early '70s. At the meeting, Mee put forth his elaborate theories about the course of Western civilization, but Toynbee apparently dozed through the tirade and didn't catch a word...
...administrator, a job today laden with an adversary image difficult to dispel, explaining that when he started thinking about being a dean, "no one used the term 'The Administration'--deans were individual people, not members of a party--I liked the work the best of them did. Then the late '60s and early '70s came along and 'The Administration' was the other party. But it was too late...
...overloosened his tongue), Sulzberger received a delegation of Sarah Lawrence College officials angry at a Times article about lesbianism at the school. Sulzberger promised that he would look into the matter. Except in the summer, when he leaves early, the publisher often wanders through the 14th-floor executive offices late in the day and invites colleagues to "buy me a drink" in his study...
Kings and Presidents pay him court, office seekers solicit his support, and audiences of Elks and securities analysts are eager to receive his wisdom. Yet the man who sits at the top of one of the world's most powerful newspapers was, to put it gently, a late bloomer. Mild dyslexia inherited from his mother was only part of his problem. "He was the most adorable, attractive boy," says she. "He was also a lazy little...
...these days, the summer blackout rate for women's colleges seems confined to New York. The Women's College Coalition in Washington, D.C., which represents two-thirds of U.S. women's colleges, reports that financial headaches are no better or worse than has been usual of late among its 67 members...