Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sophistry. But competing with Buckley becomes more difficult with each week that he is on-camera. To his peerless rhetoric he is now adding increasingly polished stage business. Just before he delivers a cruncher, his tongue licks from the corner of his mouth, his patrician voice rasps into a lower register. Similarly, the elevation of his eyebrows telegraphs the drop of a guillotine blade. Another Buckley tactic-when the antagonist has the floor-is to close his eyes, as if he is hearing insufferable platitudes, or to raise them heavenward, as if to invoke Aquinas against such patent sophistry...
Other dignitaries have to wait for lower places in the line of march. Nonentitiesties like United States Senators and Representatives in Congress are twentieth in line, following Trustees of the Charities of Edward Hopkins and the Loan Fund and the Ministers of the Six Towns of the Bay Colony...
...multi-family homes, the neighborhood was the natural nucleus for a strong political organization. In those early decided of the century, Harvard had only scattered holdings in the thick think of real estate between chutes Ave. and Memorial Drive. There was some mingling of the two cultures, the ethic lower-class of Kerry's Corner and the richer students of the University. But Kerry's Corner was a product of an earlier and it disappeared, taking with much of the flavor of turn-of-the-century politics. Harvard slowly expended its territory, creating the houses on the strip between...
...Faculty votes to make the Gen Ed program easier to understand by renaming lower-level requirements "basic requirements" and upper-level requirements "total program requirements." The governor of an Argentinian province illegally seizes seven boxes of Harvard fossils. Timothy Leary is arrested in Millbrook, N.Y., for allegedly possessing narcotics, pleads innocent and is released on $5000 bail, announces that he is going to stop using LSD because of possible side-effects, and asks Harvard for two months' back salary...
Nothing. Not a quiver. Oh sure, maybe a Framingham or a Worcester during the course of Orientation Week. But that's it. Spontaneity is the key, and the more cooked-up the occasion, the lower the reading. Commencement, for example, hasn't crossed Route 128 since the Second World...